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‘Showboating’ council finally approves senior centre funding POLITICAL POSTURING NEARLY UNRAVELS ‘FEEL GOOD’ STORY SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer
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City mulls over OakridgeTransit Centre plans MIKE HOWELL Staff writer
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t was once the site of army barracks before being converted after the Second World War to a huge transit centre that was home to 244 trolley and 182 diesel buses. Now city council has to decide what the best use will be for the sprawling 13.8-acre piece of property at 949 West 41st Ave. as landowner TransLink prepares to close the Oakridge Transit Centre.
Although the property continues to function as an operations and maintenance facility and storage for buses retired from the road, new transit centres in Richmond and Vancouver, near the Arthur Laing Bridge, have replaced the 1948-era Oakridge hub. “TransLink has determined that the [Oakridge facility] is no longer required to perform these limited functions and is considered surplus land,” said a city staff report that went before council Tuesday. See REDEVELOPED on page 5
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espite numerous claims from both Vision Vancouver and NPA councillors and park board commissioners that politics had been set aside in the quest to find funding for a seniors centre for southeast Vancouver, what transpired at city council Wednesday morning painted a very different picture. Dozens of seniors showed up to city hall for a finance committee meeting Wednesday morning to hear council vote on a prior motion recommending the city make an additional financial contribution of up to $1.2 million towards the project from surplus funds from the 2013 operating budget. The vote, which many
assumed would be dealt with in short order out of respect to the many seniors gathered, took almost two hours, with Vision and NPA elected officials arguing over minor details and Vision councillors Geoff Meggs and Kerry Jang heckling NPA councillor George Affleck most times he spoke. The bad behaviour of council was not lost on the seniors gathered, many of whom shifted uncomfortably in their seats as the bickering continued and as what should have unfolded as a good news story unravelled as the councillors continued to showboat. Council finally agreed to work towards the common goal of seeing a 10,000square foot seniors centre in Killarney. See CROWD on page 4
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s promised in my last entry, here’s a rundown of what some city councillors declared as gifts in 2013. I say “some” because not all councillors filed documents at city hall. So that either means they didn’t receive anything worth $50 or more, or they simply haven’t gotten around to putting pen to paper. Mayor Gregor Robertson, by the way, didn’t file anything. So, in no particular order, here we go… • Adriane Carr: She received a box of perfumes and incense from H.E. Ali H.S. Al-Sammak, ambassador of the State of Kuwait. She didn’t know the value and forwarded the gift to the city clerk’s office “for disposition.” The document doesn’t say where the box ended up. Carr accepted two tickets worth $86 to the opening night of Bard on the Beach and two tickets worth $155.50 to the world premiere of a Ballet B.C. production. She kept an $80 blanket given to her by the Musqueam Indian Band and received $5 cash in the mail accompanied by an article regarding the PNE management board model. Carr donated the money to the United Way.
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Councillors Adriane Carr, Tony Tang and Kerry Jang declared an assortment of gifts they received in 2013, including perfume from the ambassador of the State of Kuwait, a $250 ticket for an Honour House fundraising gala and a Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas CD. • Tony Tang: He accepted a $250 ticket from Holborn Group to attend “A night for heroes” Honour House gala fundraiser. “Attended event for 10 minutes to be recognized to show support for the cause,” Tang wrote. “No alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, no water, no cooked or raw food was consumed.” Tang also kept an $80 blanket received from the Musqueam Indian Band. He received it during an event with the band.
• Elizabeth Ball, Heather Deal, Tim Stevenson, Geoff Meggs, George Affleck and Raymond Louie all accepted the same blankets. Louie also accepted a $50 gift card to Wild Rice restaurant from Michael Alexander and Gordon Price of Simon Fraser University for being a presenter at an event. • Now to Kerry Jang… As regular readers know, Jang has been the councillor who either has the most to declare or is the most diligent in declaring gifts.
I mentioned the cookie he received and ate in my last entry. That was courtesy of Polygon Homes. Now to other goodies. He received a total of $40 from four unknown donors, including $10 and a brochure supporting Jang’s anti-shark fin campaign, $5 with a brochure in support of social and supportive housing and $5 along with an article regarding the Pidgin restaurant. Another $20 arrived with articles regarding container houses, the Olympic Village, Hastings Park and bike lanes. Jang donated all the money to the United Way. He, too, attended the Honour House gala with a $250 ticket courtesy of Holborn Group, the developer building the massive Little Mountain housing project. Then there’s the Mormon Tabernacle Choir “Once Upon a Christmas” CD worth $18.98 he received and kept from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. “The cat ate our other Christmas music CDs,” Jang wrote. “And I got tired of listening to Frank Sinatra’s Christmas CD that survived kitty’s attack. Kitty must like Sinatra, though I wish kitty showed the same appreciation as I do of Dean Martin’s CDs.” Ladies and gentlemen, Kerry Jang! A round of applause, please! He’ll be here all week, or at least until the November election. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
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Seniors activist Lorna Gibbs addressed council Wednesday. After two hours of councillors sniping back and forth, funding for a long-awaiting seniors centre in southeast Vancouver was finally approved.
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The centre would also include a commercial kitchen and elevator built on land adjacent to the Killarney Community Centre. NPA councillor Elizabeth Ball attempted to postpone the vote so council could look for “alternate funding.” Acting mayor Vision Coun. Raymond Louie told a packed chambers earlier in the meeting that the lack of a seniors centre in southeast Vancouver has been an issue since 2001 — and four separate mayors and council. Citing the length of time the project has been on the table, the Vision councillors voted unanimously against Ball’s motion. The actual cost of the centre was also a matter of discussion. The project was initially estimated at $7.5 million, but with no review completed by staff in at least five years, the NPA speculate the cost could have risen to as high as $10 million. At the meeting Vision park board commissioner Aaron Jasper requested staff complete a review of the cost as soon as possible. Vision park board chair Niki Sharma also spoke in support of the motion, as did NPA commissioner Melissa De Genova, who was the target of some aggressive questioning by Louie over what he called her “change of heart” regarding funding for the project. The $1.2 million approved Wednesday follows an initial commitment from the city of $2.5 million in 2011. It was the park board that got the ball rolling when it dedicated the land adjacent to Killarney Community Centre in 2009. In January, the federal government got on board with a
It’s not done yet. “ There’s still work to be done. —Lorna ” Gibbs promise of $2.5 million so long as work gets underway in 2014. In 2012, the province committed $1.3 million, short of the $2.5 million hoped for by the city and members of the Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society, including seniors activist Lorna Gibbs, who addressed council Wednesday. Mohinder Sidhu and Mabel Leung also spoke to council on behalf of seniors in southeast Vancouver. While there are seven seniors centres located west of Cambie Street, there are none in southeast Vancouver, home to one-third, or 27,000, of the city’s seniors. Also in attendance was Keith Jacobson, who along with Gibbs has been fighting to see a seniors centre built in Killarney for more than a decade. When council finally voted in favour of the funding, the crowd of seniors watching the proceedings broke out into loud applause. As a happy Gibbs left council chambers she was surrounded by well-wishers congratulating her on the vote. “It’s not done yet,” was Gibbs cautious response. “There’s still work to be done.” sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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Continued from page 1 TransLink wants to redevelop its Oakridge site but before it can proceed, city staff has to develop a plan for council that will outline guidelines for development. Despite being used as a transit centre for more than 60 years, the property is zoned for single-family homes. A city planning document written in 1995 identified the property for potential large-scale development that could accommodate a mix of housing, retail and a neighbourhood park. The document, Oakridge Langara Policy Statement, said the housing should include townhouses and low and mid-rise buildings, with at least 20 per cent of the housing designated non-market. The report that went before council, however, suggested the limit on maximum building heights of 50 feet and smaller density identified in the 1995 document could increase in the redevelopment. “If redevelopment adheres to these limits, the site is not likely to meet the urban potential the city has been striving for in locations well served by transit and accessible to urban amenities and employment,” said the report, pointing out the document was approved prior to knowledge of the Canada Line being built. The Canada Line station at 41st Avenue and Cambie Street is a 10-minute walk from the site, which will not be lost on the Vision Vancouver-led council that supports socalled transit-oriented development.
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After nearly a year of weekly protests by members of the Vancouver Animal Defense League (VADL), Sun Sui Wah’s Main Street location will remove shark fin soup from its menu. According Vision Coun. Kerry Jang (right), management likely changed its minds when a new, high end Chinese restaurant in Oakridge Mall voluntarily took shark fin off the menu “to reflect Canadian values.”
Vancouver Chinese restaurant removes shark fin from menu after months of protest ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP SEEKS SUPPORT FOR PROVINCIAL BAN ON SHARK FIN JONNY WAKEFIELD Contributing Writer
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ancouver Chinese restaurant Sun Sui Wah will remove shark fin from its menu, after facing nearly a year of protest from an animal rights group. Members of the Vancouver Animal Defense League (VADL) staged weekly protests outside Sun Sui Wah’s Main Street location since last March, asking diners to boycott the restaurant for serving what they say is an unethical product. At a protest in late January, management of the restaurant finally relented. “[They] came out and said ‘you win, we’re done,’” said Me-
gan Griffin, a volunteer with VADL. An employee with Sun Sui Wah’s Vancouver location confirmed the restaurant will stop serving shark fin by “October or November” — enough time to sell off remaining stock and serve banquets that have already booked menus with the soup. ”We’re going to take shark fin off the menu, once we’ve served off our stock,” said the employee, who declined to be identified by name. “We don’t want to be very high profile about this, to tell the world ‘we’re not serving shark fin soup.’ That is our own decision.” The employee did not say why the restaurant chose to remove shark fin from the menu, though Griffin suspects the protest cost Sun Sui Wah business. Clothing company Arc’teryx cancelled its Vancouver Christmas party at Sun Sui Wah after learning the restaurant sold shark fin, according Arc’teryx spokesperson Jo Salamon. “Once we were made aware that shark fin soup was on the menu, we acted on principle and selected a different venue,” Salamon said in an email. Shark fin soup is a Chinese delicacy, with single bowls going for more than $28 at Sun
Sui Wah. The shark fin harvest has drawn the ire of animal rights activists, who say it is decimating a key ocean predator. The sale of shark fin is legal in British Columbia, although municipalities including New Westminster, North Vancouver and Langley have moved to ban the product in their jurisdictions. While selling an endangered species is illegal in Canada, Griffin said, federal laws make it difficult for customs officials to determine whether a shark fin came from a protected species. “The government has no idea when endangered shark fins are coming into the country,” said Griffin, adding it’s difficult to know how many restaurants have the product on their menus. In fall 2012, Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang put forward a motion for a regional ban on the sale of shark fin, but appetite for a ban waned after Burnaby and Richmond voted down similar bylaws. Lower Mainland cities are now waiting on the results of a court challenge against a shark fin ban in Toronto. Jang, who has been attacked by some members of the Chinese community for his stance on shark fin, said momentum is
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against the shark fin defenders. “What really changed the minds of Sun Sui Wah management, I think, was when Peninsula, a new, high-end Chinese restaurant in Oakridge Mall, decided to voluntarily take shark fin off the menu,” he said. “The owner wanted to reflect Canadian values and totally reprinted his menu without shark fin.” Griffin said VADL members are talking with MLAs in hopes of gaining support for a law banning the sale of shark fin in British Columbia. Sun Sui Wah is the second Vancouver restaurant to drop shark fin after facing picket lines outside its doors. Fortune Garden restaurant on Broadway was VADL’s first target, and a number of other restaurants have decided to stop serving shark fin voluntarily. According to Griffin, VADL plans to approach Kirin Restaurant in the coming weeks, which has three locations in the Lower Mainland still serving shark fin. In the fall, they will send diners to Sun Sui Wah to confirm shark fin is no longer on offer. “We told [Sun Sui Wah management] this is inevitable,” said Griffin. “Either restaurants are going to stop serving shark fin on their own or we’re going to have to protest them.”
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n a city where talk of drug addiction typically includes discussion about the benefits of the Insite supervised injection site, David Berner appears to be a lone voice in the wilderness with his belief in abstinence-based recovery programs. “No, actually there’s lots of us out there,” said Berner in response to the suggestion he represents a minority view in how to break a drug habit in Vancouver. Berner, who lives in the city, is the executive director of the Drug Prevention Network of Canada and runs addiction therapy groups at the Orchard Recovery Centre on Bowen Island. On Feb. 19, he will moderate a free public forum on drug addiction at the Hillcrest Community Centre that will
feature four people who largely share Berner’s views. None of the panelists, he acknowledged, support the Insite supervised injection site as a method to help people on the road to recovery. The panelists are Brenda Plant of the Turning Point Recovery Society, AnnMarie McCullough of Faces and Voices of Recovery Canada, addictions psychiatrist Dr. William Hay and Candace Plattor, an author and registered clinical counsellor. “They represent a tip of the iceberg,” said Berner, referring to the many people working in prevention and treatment in Vancouver and the suburbs. The forum is billed as an opportunity to “hear and be heard on what addictions really are, how they work, what you can do to find real solutions and how your community is truly involved in the problem and the answers.” Although Berner said abstinence is the best method to break a drug habit, he pointed out that prescription drug alternatives such as methadone help with recovery. “Many people don’t use that but there’s a lot of ways to get clean,” he said. “We’re not saying you’ve got to go cold turkey, although that’s what I’ve known in my work. But there’s a thousand or million ways to get there.
We just believe that most people don’t know they exist.” Berner, who is also a longtime film and stage actor, said he was “furious” when he heard news of the apparent heroin overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman this past week. Hoffman’s death has highlighted the dangers of addiction and the need for drug users to seek help, said Berner, noting the 46-year-old left three kids behind. But Insite, he added, is not the answer. “You think giving a place for people to shoot up is helpful?” he said. “It’s not, it just keeps them in the game.” Studies published in various medical journals including the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine concluded Insite saves lives and health care dollars, reduces disease transmission and does not increase crime or perpetuate active drug use. In 2012, Insite counsellors made more than 5,000 referrals to social and health service agencies, the majority of which were for detox and addiction treatment. Insite has operated for more than 10 years and recorded two million injections without an overdose death, according to Vancouver Coastal Health. The forum begins at 7 p.m. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings
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self options and two living in small groups options — one of the latter being a “Greenhouse” model in which six to 12 people live together, the preferred model for many people currently living at Pearson. Tasia Alexis, a member of the city’s People with Disabilities Advisory Committee, welcomed the revisions. “The consensus document that everybody has worked so hard on gives people the ability to have a choice and gives people the ability to actually decide where they want to live, with whom they want to live. This is very important. Institutions are our history, they don’t have to become our future,” she said. Jill Weiss, chair of the committee, agreed. “We have come a very long way in two short weeks. From a proposal of outmoded practice that closed the door on people’s rights and freedoms, we now have an excellent proposal that protects peoples’ rights, commits to the global best practice of independent community living, follows the UN Convention and opens the door to equal and full participation,” she said. Not everyone backed the revisions. Faith Bodnar, executive director of Inclusion B.C., urged council to reject the policy statement based on her group’s ongoing concerns about institutionalization. “What we see today is the first early attempt for Vancouver Coastal Health to catch up and enter the 21st century. Notable an effort perhaps, but nowhere near good enough and most assuredly not even close to the mark if they truly want to innovate and ensure truly personalized and individualized supports for people currently living at Pearson and those who follow. No greenhouses, which is another name for institutions. No option for choice, and I put choice in quotation marks, to go to another institution for that is a perversion of true choice. It doesn’t recognize the power dynamics and the experience of people living in institutions,” she said. Now that council has passed the policy statement, Vancouver Coastal Health can file a rezoning application. noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh
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his week’s B.C. Supreme Court decision about Margot Bentley had me scrambling through my living will — my Healthcare Representation Agreement — and on the phone to my lawyer. And I am sure I’m not the only one moved to ensure that because of some oversight or vague phrasing my wishes on just how I shuffled off this mortal coil would be betrayed only to be left in the hands of faceless bureaucrats as a result of Justice Bruce Greyell’s shocking decision. Margot Bentley is an 82-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1999 and is now in the seventh or final stage of the disease and living in an Abbotsford care home. The former nurse cannot verbally communicate. She cannot recognize any of her family members. She cannot manage any of her toilet needs. And she is being kept alive by assisted feeding where she is prompted to open her moth by being poked on her lips with a spoon or glass. This is clearly not the state of existence Bentley had in mind when she wrote her “statement of wishes” in 1991. Excerpts were included in Greyell’s 30-page judgment where Bentley explicitly asked that she receive “no nourishment of liquid” and to be euthanized if she was “unable to recognize the members of my family.” However the Justice denied the family’s request to stop her feeding and let her slip away. He concluded Bentley was capable of making decisions and providing her consent to feeding through her behaviour and, as a result of a second document written by Bentley after 1991, her decision regarding feeding was unclear. How the judge got there based on the evidence provides a cautionary tale for the rest of us. Bentley’s case was taken to court by her daughter Katherine Hammond acting as her litigation guardian and Margot’s husband John Bentley. The respondents to the case raised by the family included the Maplewood Seniors Care Society, Fraser Health Authority and the Province of B.C. As well, there were two interveners, two Euthanasia Prevention Coalitions. As you read through Greyell’s decision it is obvious that respondents mounted a more effective case than Bentley’s family. That is not my view alone; it is also the view of SFU’s Dr. Rob Gordon. Among his other credentials he is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law at UBC. He was also the lead author in the provincial legislation that revamped and modernized our laws around issues of living wills and elder care that went into effect in 2000. He says the “judge came to the wrong conclusion based on insufficient evidence.” For starters, the respondents put up two experts on Alzheimer disease and behaviour, a medical doctor and a senior social worker. As well, they produced an affidavit from a clinical nurse specialist in gerontology. The family put up Bentley’s family doctor who the Justice noted was not an expert in that area. To make matters worse, the Justice said the doctor’s view that Bentley was in a “vegetative state” was “neither useful nor accurate.” Gordon says that although the conclusion was “wrong” and the judgment was a “shocking betrayal” of Margot Bentley’s wishes, she was the “author of her own misfortunes.” That second document written after her 1991 Statement of Wishes not only said “I fear degradation and indignity far more than death,” it also included what Gordon calls a “fatal” phrase: “I accept basic care however.” Greyell took that to mean “personal care,” which in this province is different from “health care” and includes issues such as diet and assisted feeding where it is consensual and done in the manner it is. To deny that, the Justice ruled, would put the care home at legal risk. Stopping feeding would, he concluded, be “medically and ethically inappropriate” and “amount to neglect.” There will likely be an appeal of this decision. Meanwhile, when planning your living will or updating it, make sure your lawyer reads Greyell’s judgment and is familiar with the current legislation on the matter so that what is happening to Margot Bentley and her family doesn’t happen to you and yours. agarr@vancourier.com twitter.com/allengarr
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n the fifth day of creation, God called in Bulldog, Eagle and Beaver for a meeting. “I’m thinking of fashioning something out of soil tomorrow and calling him Adam,” said the Creator in a booming voice from above. The puzzled animals cast sidelong glances at one another. “You three shall represent a trio of great nations for Adam’s descendants,” God proclaimed. “Well, two great nations, at least. Bulldog, you shall front for a naval power with colonies around the world. The People of the Bulldog shall have a polyglot language, a world-class broadcasting system, and a magical singing foursome named after a kind of insect. But they shall feel the sting of austerity, too.” Bulldog shifted uneasily, unsure where The Lord was going with this. “Relax already, it’s just a symbolic role!” God thundered. “I’m talking branding here, not putting the screws to the beasts of the Earth. That’ll be Adam’s business!” “Your turn, Eagle. I’m talking national symbol again. One day you’ll take up the reins of world empire from Bulldog. Your nation will invade foreign lands with the professed aim of spreading freedom, while grabbing whatever resources are available. It will rain bombs like brimstone down upon all those who resist its beneficence. On the domestic front, The People of the Eagle will swell to immense size, pushing shopping carts laden with corn-based crap through behemoth discount stores, out to vast expanses of asphalt where their giant, cartoon-like combustion chariots await. “And I love this idea — I actually got it from my Lead Angel — the adult inhabitants of this great nation shall carry lethal weapons under the pretext of protecting themselves against others with lethal weapons! I’m a total nut for Wild West themes!” Eagle looked mildly irritated, which God immediately detected with his Awesome All-Knowingness™. “C’mon, you’re a bird of prey, for My sake! Nations will prey upon other nations, just like animals prey upon other animals. It’s an addendum to The Law of the Jungle — the legal department is working on it right now. Now over to you, Beaver.” The aquatic rodent’s eyes twinkled like brown marbles. Was his to be the most dominant empire of all? “No,” commanded the super-psychic deity. “In fact, your nation will be dominated by the other two, starting with Bulldog. Hewing wood and hauling water will be the Beaver people’s destiny, as a resource-based, branch-plant economy. Then you’ll do the bird’s bidding for a stretch, while a monarch from pooch nation remains your default ruler.” Beaver’s heart sank. He wasn’t into conquest, but he wasn’t up for being anyone’s bitch either. “Oh, lighten up, Beaver,” said the Creator, rolling His eyes. “I see you doing a ‘soft power’ thing. Basically, it’s a bureaucratic charm offensive where you try to influence global events through diplomacy. But that won’t last. The People of the Beaver shall join in on a “War on Terror,” which one Eagle leader will ironically mispronounce as ‘War on Terra.’ The three of you will institute all kinds of crazy security laws while spying on your own subjects. And you know how the People of the Beaver, Eagle and Bulldog will be surveilled? Through their own smartphones!” God’s laughter echoed throughout the firmament, but the three beasts didn’t understand what he meant by “smartphones.” “Never mind, they haven’t been invented yet. The important thing is that it’s all part of My moving mysteriously. On the upside there will be legalized weed.” There was a long pause. With their heads averted, the humbled creatures could barely catch a glimpse of the Lord’s blazing countenance what with the glare from His 50,000-watt nimbus. In spite of the radiance, He looked dimly down upon His rushed work in fur and feathers. Next time I generate intellectual property I’m going to give it more than a week, God thought. “OK crew, let’s wind this up. All empires have their best-before dates, so let me explain what I have planned after Eagle’s reign.” God pressed a button on the console of his majestic, cloud-wreathed throne. “Send in Panda,” he boomed. geoffolson.com
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To the editor: Re: “Young readers like an open book,” Jan. 28. If I understand this correctly, the Canucks Family Education Centre for adults is pairing students from Britannia secondary with Britannia elementary to read to one another and promote love of reading. Interestingly enough, the staff and students have to, at least some of the time, wear Canucks regalia, and on one occasion had to read “Canucks-flavoured reading” material. Is this philanthropy or cultivating the next generation of sports consumers? I hope the former.
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To the editor: Re: “TransLink solution remains stalled out,” Jan. 31. Allen Garr’s article really needed more ink and space to explain how dysfunctional TransLink’s corporate governance structure is to the future of Metro Vancouver. There is a total lack of transparency between the political and the economic powers with the result that the taxpayers are not getting value for their money, that is economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. When pushed into correcting their ways, TransLink could only
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A Courier reader wonders if the Vancouver Canucks’ motivation for promoting childhood literacy is entirely altruistic. muster efficiency and effectiveness in their advertising. This veneer of good governance was ripped off with recent reports by the auditor general of B.C. and the comptroller general of B.C. on TransLink. There are no valid sustainable environmental assessments for the various major projects which is required in order to obtain federal funding. What does happen is that the economic powers go behind closed doors to map out indirect subsidies to industry. For instance, the Port of Metro Vancouver wants to build a coal dock on the Fraser River. In order to achieve this, the federal chartered organization wants TransLink to build a bridge and replace the Deas Tunnel. In B.C., public highways are paid
for by the province out of general revenue while public transit must be paid for by the municipalities of Metro Vancouver. How is this project’s process achieved? The board chair of TransLink, Marcella Szel, is also a member of the board of directors of Port Metro Vancouver. She was previously vice-president of CP Rail and “extensively involved in the… Coal Association of Canada” according to her curriculum vitae posted on TransLink’s and Port Metro Vancouver’s websites. Who does she represent in this proposal? Not the citizens of Metro Vancouver who want value for money management that is environmentally sustainable.
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PROVINCEWIDE A global fundraising effort that uses cupcakes to raise money for animals in need is being celebrated across the province Feb. 24. National Cupcake Day is the first-ever collaborative fundraising effort supporting animal welfare societies in Canada. Funds raised locally will assist the B.C. SPCA and other animal welfare groups across the province. The SPCA is asking people to “bake a difference,” by registering at nationalcupcakeday.ca, planning a cupcake party at work, home or school and encouraging friends and family to donate online in advance and in person at your event. Through the Online Bakery, participants can track cupcake orders, send emails to friends and family about their National Cupcake Day Party and manage fundraising. In 2013, animal lovers
beer tasting event at the WISE Hall Saturday, Feb. 8, from noon to 4 p.m. The event, organized in response to the growing number of beer lovers who’ve discovered they’re gluten intolerant, will feature local and American ciders and craft beers. For more information and tickets, visit camravancouver.ca.
across Canada raised more than $400,000 in support of their favourite societies. This year, celebrity chef and Food Network host Anna Olson joined the party as the “Cupcake Crusader.” A long-time supporter of animals and the SPCA, Olson has created an original cupcake recipe for this year’s event. The recipe, Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting, can be found at nationalcupcakeday.ca (a nut-free version is also available online). Locally, Kristina Matisic, co-host of Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag, has joined the public campaign.
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OAKRIDGE The Madagascar Community Development Society invites the community to escape the winter blues and join them at their Valentine’s Dinner Dance fundraiser Friday, Feb. 14, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, located on the corner of Oak and West 49th Avenue. Funds raised will be used towards the purchase of a pump for their community garden in Madagascar. The party includes a silent auction and food — good company and atmosphere guaranteed. For more information, call 604722-8774 or visit madagascargarden.org.
The SPCA has baked up a fundraiser coinciding with National Cupcake Day.
GRANDVIEW-WOODLAND Gluten-intolerant beer lovers rejoice — a tasting event this weekend promises some delicious alternatives to craft brews. The Campaign for Real Ale’s Vancouver chapter welcomes the (drinking-age) public, to CiderWISE, a cider and gluten-free
The world premiere of East Side Animals takes place Saturday, Feb. 8, at Falaise Community Hall, 3434 Falaise Ave. This community composition project, presented by the Little Chamber Music Series That Could, is an opportunity for kids to make their own animal mask starting at 2 p.m. with an all-ages musical event with East Side Animals beginning at 3 p.m. For more information, visit littlechambermusic.com.
DOWNTOWN There’s free hot chocolate at the Robson Square Ice Rink on Family Day, Feb. 10, from noon to 4 p.m. There will also be free skate rentals on the day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. along with music for the whole family. The ice rink is open until Feb. 28. For more information, visit RobsonSquare.com.
news COMMUNITY BRIEFS POLICE RECOMMEND CHARGES IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUND ATTACK Vancouver Police are recommending that charges be laid against a 43-year-old Vancouver man following the alleged assault Feb. 2 of two 11-year-old girls at Strathcona Elementary School. The man was identified Tuesday after police received tips from the community and he was subsequently arrested without incident. As charges have not yet been laid, the man’s name is not being released at this time.
WORK ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ON MING SUNG BUILDING
The City of Vancouver has ordered the owner of the Ming Sun building at 437-441 Powell St. to remove hazardous material and secure structural issues in the building by Jan. 31. The building owner has submitted a safety plan that will allow workers to access the site and the city has lifted orders restricting access to the building. Although the building is now structurally secure, the owner is required to continue to address the long term safety of the building and get new work permits before repairing or demolishing the building by Aug. 5.
LANDLORD EXPECTS PACIFIC CENTRE TO BE FULL BY 2015 LAUNCH Pacific Centre’s owner expects the downtown Vancouver mall’s 44,000-square-foot retail expansion to be full when both it and a 230,000-square-foot Nordstrom department store opens in spring 2015. This despite no leases having yet been finalized. Nordstrom Inc. will occupy three floors of the former Sears building — each slightly more than 73,000 square feet. Those floors are the street level and floors 2 and 3. Four above floors will house office tenants and a basement level is being transformed into an expanded Pacific Centre. “We expect there to be between 10 and 14 new retailers on the concourse level of the expanded Pacific Centre,” said Cadillac Fairview senior vice-president for Western Canada Tom Knopfel on Tuesday. “For many of those retailers, this will be their first store in Vancouver.” Pacific Centre currently has 984,835 square feet of retail space. The expansion would not only have 44,000 square feet of retail space but also almost 30,000 square feet of concourse common space. Some retail observers have speculated that a future underground link could be built between Cadillac Fairview’s Pacific Centre and Ivanhoe Cambridge’s Fairmont Hotel Vancouver site by tunnelling under the front lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
IL GIARDINO COULD SOON REOPEN Restaurateur Umberto Menghi plans to reopen his iconic Il Giardino restaurant half a block from the location where it operated for 37 years before closing last summer. Menghi has made a tentative offer to Glowbal Group owner Emad Yacoub to take over space at 1328 Hornby Street that Yacoub currently occupies and operates a casual Italian food bistro named IK2GO (Italian Kitchen to go). Yacoub also operates a commissary and has other corporate space at that site, which was Mona’s for decades before that restaurant closed a few years ago. Menghi said if his bid to take over that space is unsuccessful, his Plan B is to find another site. Yacoub sounded positive toward the offer, saying he and Umberto are still “ironing out” a deal and that he has yet to receive a firm offer. “[1328 Hornby Street] is similar square footage at about 5,000 square feet,” Menghi told Business in Vancouver. “It also has some outdoor space for dining and that’s what Il Giardino means – eating in the garden.” Last January, Seacliff Properties bought the former Il Giardino restaurant site, on the corner of Hornby Street and Pacific Boulevard, from W.P.J. McCarthy and Co. owner William McCarthy as well as several similar sized lots directly north of the restaurant from Menghi.
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Marpole Community Plan
Learn more about the draft plan!
The City and the Marpole community are developing a new, updated community plan for the neighbourhood. This plan will ensure that we protect what residents love about their neighbourhood, while making sure that future growth meets the needs of the community. Since April 2012, the community has come together at over 80 consultation events and activities to provide input for the plan, which will guide direction for land use, housing, transportation, parks and public spaces, community amenities, heritage and more. We shared the draft plan in June 2013, revised the plan over the fall and received more feedback from the community in a series of meetings last November and December.
Join us for a learning session to go over the revised draft plan. Learn more, ask questions and understand how it will help shape the future of the community. Session 1: Monday, February 17, 2014, 3:30 – 5:30 pm Session 2: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 6 – 8 pm Session 3: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 1 – 3 pm Session 4: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 6 – 8 pm Session 5: Friday, February 21, 2014, 1 – 3 pm Session 6: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
TO REGISTER FOR A SESSION OR FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit: vancouver.ca/marpoleplan Email: marpoleplan@vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 Twitter: @marpoleplan
Public Hearing: February 18 Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a public hearing to consider heritage, zoning and sign amendments for these locations:
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1. 2856 West 3rd Avenue (Logan House) To designate the existing building as a protected heritage property, and to approve a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) for the site to permit the rehabilitation of the heritage building and the construction of a new infill one-family dwelling. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law. 2. 4139-4187 Cambie Street To rezone 4139-4187 Cambie Street from RS-1 (OneFamily Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to allow for two six-storey residential buildings with two-storey townhouses along the rear lane, containing a total of 75 dwelling units. A height of 21.8 metres (71.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.51 are proposed. 3. 563–571 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 563–571 West King Edward Avenue from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to allow for one six-storey residential building with two-storey townhouses along the rear lane, containing a total of 70 dwelling units. A height of 21.5 metres (70.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.43 are proposed. 4. 1412-1424 East 41st Avenue To rezone 1412 East 41st Avenue from C-1 (Commercial) District and 1424 East 41st Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District, both to a CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is for a four-storey commercial and residential building, with all 42 dwelling units secured as for-profit affordable rental housing. A height of 14.35 metres (47.1 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.42 are proposed. This is a concurrent rezoning and development permit (DE413542) application.
5. 960-968 Kingsway and 955 East 19th Avenue To rezone 960-968 Kingsway and 955 East 19th Avenue from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to allow for a six-storey commercial and residential building, with all 44 dwelling units secured as for-profit affordable rental housing. A height of 19.4 metres (63.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.39 are proposed. This is a concurrent rezoning and development permit (DE413541) application. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually before 5 pm on February 18, 2014 by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Department, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City's website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details. Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting February 7, 2014 at the City Clerk’s Department in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, and in the Planning Department, East Wing of City Hall, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings. (Minutes are posted approximately two business days after a meeting.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1
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Plenty to do in your own backyard this Family Day COMMUNITY CENTRES, AQUARIUM, HOTELS OFFER KID-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES STEPHANIE FLORIAN Contributing writer
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s we approach the second anniversary of B.C.’s Family Day statutory holiday Feb. 10, it’s a good time to pause, plan and prepare for a memorable and much-needed time out. Spinning our wheels in a world full of distractions and noise, life as a parent can at times feel like running on a non-stop treadmill. Between work, social commitments, play dates, sports, errands, groceries and general chaos, it’s nearly impossible to stop and breathe, let alone coordinate multiple family schedules. Leave It to Beaver family mealtimes seem to be a thing of the past. It can get old and exhausting coming up with new ways to entertain your kids. By the end of the week everyone is bushed and tapped for ideas. Here are a few suggestions to help families create a simple, yet memorable “staycation” this Family Day. • Introduce the little ones to the luxury lifestyle at one of Vancouver’s family friendly hotels. Pack an overnight bag and enter the palace gates. Don’t forget the princess dresses and the swimsuits. Tourism Vancouver’s Amber Sessions lets us in on her top recommendations. The Four Seasons Vancouver boasts the only indoor/outdoor hotel pool in the city and has been recently awarded a five-star rating by the Forbes Travel Guide. Kid-friendly offerings include spacious suites perfect for families, complimentary cribs, high chairs, strollers, playpens, child-size bathrobes, baby and children’s toiletries and items to baby-proof your room. Various family discounted packages are available depending on your needs. For example, the Kids In the City package will save
Kids and parents can let their hair down at Trout Lake Community Centre this Family Day. you 30 per cent on a second room if bunking with your teenagers is not what you would call luxury. • If conservative and classic luxuries are more your family style, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver offers a daily “bubblegum tea” for kids while parents enjoy High Tea (1 to 4 p.m.
on Family Day). You may be sleeping not far from home but your kids will never forget the memories and the 600 thread count sheets. • Turn out the Lights on Feb. 9 as the Vancouver Aquarium offers families the ultimate marine staycation — a slumber party where you
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can choose the marine backdrop of choice. A fully inclusive experience, the sleepover includes special activities, tours, presentations and guest speakers. After a delicious evening snack, the behind-the-scenes marine lab allows overnighters the chance to get personal with the stars
of our sea. Wake up to a continental breakfast and more special tours. Pre-booking online required at vanaqua.org. • If you prefer simple, active and fun, community centers take Family Day seriously, offering endless fun and inexpensive programming for everyone. Mount Pleasant offers a free parent and tot session, 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. that includes games, crafts and activities (for families with children 5 and under). Trout Lake hosts a free event 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring entertainment, instructor demos, art, barbecue, skating and other activities. Templeton Pool offers a special all-ages swim session, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., including activities, games and prizes. West Point Grey host a free event 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. featuring zumba, arts and crafts, and a bouncy castle. Hillcrest Centre’s Family Day program, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., costs $2 per child and includes a mini Olympic Games for the whole family, crafts, sport activities, entertainment and more. Pre-registration is required. Killarney Community Centre’s event runs 1:30 to 4 p.m. and features a variety of activities including a family gym with Olympic-themed crafts and games. Pre-registration is required. Admission by food donation. For more information, visit vancouver.ca. There are no rules to planning a Family Day staycation. More is always merrier, so gather your clan and create magic together with multiple families or a classic family reunion. Creatures of habit may prefer spending a leisurely day at one of Vancouver’s staple hot spots: VanDusen Botanical Gardens, Stanley Park, Robson Square Ice Rink, Vancouver Art Gallery or Science World, to name a few. info@playoutdoorsvancouver.ca
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Celebrate 2010 Olympic legacy and 2014 Winter Games CENTRAL PARK
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n celebration of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, a North Vancouver artist has created a series of art prints of elite figure skaters from Canada, the U.S., Korea and Japan. Ann Jurik, of Jurik designs, was inspired to create the paintings following the success of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. The prints include images of popular skaters such as Joannie Rochette, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir and Johnny Weir. Small art shows featuring the pieces have been set up at several locations across the city including the Kerrisdale Community Centre, the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and UBC Robson Square, where the Weir print will be on display. Prints will be available to win through raffle sales at each location. And speaking of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, anyone wearing red Olympic mittens will enjoy free entrance Feb. 8 to 10, in celebration of Family Day and the fourth anniversary of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. The weekend includes displays of Olympic and Paralympic medals, an opportunity to hang with mascots Quatchi, Sumi and
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Johnny Weir poses alongside Ann Jurik’s portrait of the former Olympic figure skater, which will be on display at UBC’s Robson Square. Miga, the chance to stand on a real 2010 podium and a Family Day scavenger hunt. There are Olympic-themed events taking place across the city during the next couple of weeks, including at the Pan Pacific Hotel, which played host to the First Nations display Kla-how-ya Village during the 2010 Games.
It was also the place I first tasted rattlesnake and wrote at the time that it tastes absolutely nothing like chicken. NBC also broadcast the Games from the hotel so it also became a natural meeting place for sports fans. To celebrate the 2014 Games the hotel has created the “Olympic Cheering Centre”
in the Cascades Bistro from Feb. 7 to 23 where fans can watch events on big-screen TVs while enjoying Sochi-themed appetizers and special drinks including imported Russian beer and Moscow Mules. As well, anyone wearing red Olympic mittens will be entered into a draw for a special Pacific Club Floor Getaway Package. Many of the city’s community centres are also reliving the games with special events. The centres were set up as community living rooms during the 2010 Games with bigscreen TVs for residents to gather. The Creekside Community Recreation Centre is hosting a Winter Games legacy celebration Feb. 9 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The centre is deemed a Vancouver 2010 Olympic legacy because it served as the administrative and commercial hub of Athletes Village at the time. The celebration includes an opening parade, autograph station with gold medalist Ashleigh McIvor, the West Coast Lumberjack Show, a meet and greet with blue jacket volunteers, an extreme snowboarding simulator and way too many activities to mention here. Blue jacket volunteers interested in participating in the opening parade should call 604-257-3050 to register. There are celebrations taking place at many community centres so drop by your neighbourhood location for a schedule or visit vancouver.ca. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10
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A. It sounds as if you’re doing just fine with your garlic. Because you’re doing crop rotation and nourishing your soil regularly, it should already have all the nutrition it needs. Though it likes to start off in deep, rich soil, garlic is
actually quite a light feeder and leaves lots of food in the soil for the next crop. But garlic does like regular moisture in the growing season. So it will need extra watering if we continue to get long dry spells at times when we normally would have drenching rains. ••• Q. “I have a flowering dogwood, Korean, I think. Its flowers are pink and it’s a nice, smallish front yard tree. It gets lots of sunlight, but later in the summer its leaves get a bit blighty. Would dormant spray help this? Also I’ve been pruning/ shaping the tree in the winter when it’s dormant. Is this the optimal time? I don’t want to be cutting off all the flowering branches.” John Barbisan, Vancouver
A. Virtually all the infections flowering dogwoods get are fungal. So, yes, dormant spray will help reduce this.
Your dogwood is probably Cornus kousa. Does the name “Satomi” ring a bell? This is a pink-flowered variety that’s popular here. Satomi’s leaves turn purple in fall. Because flowering dogwoods don’t respond to pruning well, as little should be done as possible. The flower buds are formed in fall, so when you must prune, it’s best to prune immediately after flowering. Dead branches can be removed any time. ••• Q. “My grandson has purchased a community garden plot and is so excited to plant vegetables for the family. He’s brand new to gardening so it’s a big learning curve for him. He’s now ready to add manure to the soil and has a place to get free cow manure. I’m concerned as to all the weeds it will bring. What would be the best option?” Diane Benner, Surrey
A. Any animal that feeds on grass or hay will produce manure with lots of weed seeds. But manure that’s been composted for a year has far fewer seeds because heat within the pile is intense enough to kill most of them. Your grandson needs to ask if the manure is already composted and, if so, for how long. Free manure is an attractive option and if it’s already composted for a year or more I’d say “Go for it!” If not it would be best passed up, especially since he’s a first-timer. New gardeners on a learning curve don’t need to add extra weed-pulling to all the new things he’ll be doing anyway. As well, un-composted manure tends to burn plant roots. Actually, this farm manure may be well-composted anyway, because people with animals don’t always find it easy to unload all the manure animals make. So it could have been piled for quite a while. amarrison@shaw.ca
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When dining out, it’s not always the case that we get to know who’s creating our meals in the kitchen. Lucky for patrons of Browns Socialhouse behind Coquitlam Town Centre, they get Executive Chef Jason Labahn for the next three months. Labahn has launched the latest feature sheet menu, using this location as a temporary test kitchen with Chef Steve Dacunha until the restaurant’s official test kitchen opens this March in Langley.
AS PREDICTED (Jan. 19-25 column), the Denver Broncos lost the Super Bowl. I added, last week (Jan. 26 column) that Seattle would dominate the first half, Broncos the second. In the first half, Seattle didn’t dominate, they slayed, 22-0. In the second half, the Broncos finally scored. Time of possession, completed passes, everything improved for the Broncos in the second half. But Seattle had already reduced them to a walking corpse. “Dominant,” for Denver, was laughably wrong…. I also read recently that Hillary Clinton would garner 71 percent of the votes in a Democratic primary held today and that she would defeat Republican Chris Christie by a small but respectable margin if the federal election was today. Some months ago I opined that Hillary should not run for President. But if the primaries are held between July 2014 and August 2015, Scorpio Hillary will have lucky Jupiter in her career sign, a basic signal of victory. She will also have Bill Clinton on her side, a man who has already won a few elections – two for himself, and more for others. In addition, Bill was born in Hillary’s career sign, so his aid should be doubly potent. She seems a shoo-in for the nomination.
Start nothing new in any area, Aries, especially in background, government, and group arenas. Stick with the old or ongoing. Avoid big new purchases — lemons abound. Your career continues to be blessed; higher-ups favour you. Sunday’s busy (errands, etc.) but not important. Focus on home, security, life’s basics Monday/Tuesday — little things go well, but larger goals need patience or altering.
The main focus remains on romance, beauty, pleasure, creative and speculative urges. You still ride a winning streak but don’t start new creative works, a new romance, etc. Stick to the past, to faithful companions. Four things about your love life: intense to July; happy/friendly then to August 2015; odd characters now to 2018; and avoid marrying before mid-November 2015.
Avoid new starts before Feb. 28. Double-check all instructions, especially those from higher-ups. Legal, educational and far-travel concerns are advancing smoothly and fortunately. But romance might snag on indecision, and a creative work can’t seem to find its conclusion. A boss, VIP or career role might return from the past.
Remember, start nothing before Feb. 28. The general accent lies on home, parent/kids, property, security, gardening, nutrition, stomach and soul. A prodigal family member might show up, or you might see that a house you’ve long wanted to buy, is finally for sale. Photo albums drip with nostalgia. Sunday’s mysterious and holds valuable secrets, especially about health, government, work and machines.
Remember, start nothing before Feb. 28. The general accent lies on intellectual activities, love, far travel, legalities and life philosophy. Older ideas and/or teachers from the past might re-appear, and you’ll think, Wow, was I that smart? (or dumb?) — these are valid ideas, but don’t become confused. An old flame might appear, also. Your energy and charisma remain high Sunday. Romance/friendship go well to midday.
You’re busy, talkative, ready to travel at short notice. You’re curious, friendly and crave variety. But remember that mistakes, miscues and false starts are more frequent now. Make lists before leaving the front door. Don’t start new projects before Feb. 28. Your money luck remains high, all month. Exciting meetings could occur Sunday; a lover could become a friend or vice-versa.
Start nothing before Feb. 28, especially in financial and intimate/sexual zones. Be wary of new health regimens or surgery unless the first surgery failed in the past. A former investment opportunity or sexual partner might return if before the 12th at noon, avoid it; if after, it could be successful. Rest and recuperate Sunday: information is available, seek it.
Chase and collect money, especially from old/late payers. Pay neglected bills, too. But buy only minor items, and don’t start new projects before Feb. 28. You are still blessed in many ways; others find you gracious and subtly magnetic. Bosses and authorities are impatient (to late July) so step lightly. These bosses will be most bothered by what they see as ethical or legal breaches, and/or messiness.)
The main accent lies on relationships, relocation, dealings with the public (from star fame to being a store clerk) and opportunities — and challenges. Be diplomatic. Remember, start nothing brand new, especially in the areas just listed. A former spouse or business partner might return: if before noon Wednesday, it formerly ended for good reason; if after (to the 18th) it could be good.
Your energy and charisma remain high. Your popularity’s good. Solitude is sweet also. Remember, start nothing new before Feb. 28. Use your energy and “luck” to give important projects and relationships your protective wing or to give them a good heave. Sunday’s romantic — great to converse with someone attractive. Tackle chores Monday/ Tuesday with care.
The general accent lies on work, machinery, dependants, service people, and health. Dress and eat sensibly. Remember, start nothing new before Feb. 28. Don’t buy machinery, tool, or computers. A job might return from the past – better if it appears after midday Wednesday. Be ambitious, statusaware Sunday: a money opportunity might appear. If it’s quick and not long-and-involved, grab it.
Continue to lie low, rest, avoid competitive situations. Be charitable, deal with civil servants and institutions, reconnect with your own soul. Matters can arise from the past here: e.g., tax return overdue, or forms forgotten return now. Start nothing big or new before Feb. 28. (That could be your big break-out day, but more later.) Don’t set plans in stone. Sunday’s for home, kids, nature. All’s good!
Monday: Mark Spitz (64). Tuesday: Sheryl Crow (52). Wednesday: Christina Ricci (34). Thursday: Henry Rollins (53), Friday: Simon Pegg (44). Saturday: Matt Groening (60). Sunday: Ice T (56).
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Northern Quebec’s Manicouagan crater is roughly 215 million years old. Ironically, it can help us get a youthful-looking complexion.
Instant motivation for a barre or hot yoga class: Nike Studio Wrap footwear. They’re stylish and make us feel like a dancer slipping on a pair of ballet shoes. Not only do they look ridiculously pretty, they actually offer great support to the ankles and arches and have great traction — and no more contact with the damp, sweat-soaked floor. For extra coverage, there’s a package that includes flats to slip on over the wraps after class. Stylish from the studio to the street. Available at sporting good stores, $50 for the wrap, $110 for the pack, www.nike.com
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While many mud masks are uncomfortable (burning and stinging is never a good sign in our books!), Consonant’s DHE Mask, which contains Manicouagan clay, feels like a dream. Plus, with bonus ingredients like willow bark and tea tree exact (touted for their purification properties), fruit oils (for hydration and radiance) and alpha hydroxy enzymes (gentle exfoliants), it’s an all-natural recipe for a glowing complexion. An oldie but a goodie. $45 at www.consonantskincare.com
Mexico City Mosaic
by Murray Bancroft
If clearing out your closet or spending less money on clothes is part of your plan for 2014, then we suggest you check out Mine & Yours. Inspired by the trenddriven consignment stores in LA, this downtown boutique purchases or trades clothes with Vancouver’s most stylish shoppers. They describe it as a revolving community closet, filled with party dresses, casual wear, and killer shoes. We spotted a $40 Versace skirt, four pairs of Christian Louboutins at $300 per pair, and a Vince leather shift dress for $190. Expect to find brands like Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton alongside Wilfred and Topshop. Items are priced to move quickly, and they pay cash instead of using a complicated and time consuming consignment system (which also means they tend to get the best stuff). Buying days are Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, so clear out your closet and exchange it for cash or trade it for something new, or as we like to say, new to you. Mine & Yours, 1060 Hornby St., Vancouver, 604-620-8885, www.mineandyours.com
Pablo Neruda said “Mexico City is in the markets,” and on a recent weekend jaunt to this bustling capital, so were we. Stay Channel your inner Tyler Brulé (or pretend you’re a Mexican telecom tycoon) in the cool business district hotel, Hotel Distrito Capital from Grupo Habita (who also opened the Hotel Americano in Chelsea). The views are expansive - as are the rooms. We hired a driver here to take us to the markets on whirlwind tour. Hotel Distrito Capital Av. Juan Salvador Agraz 37 Santa Fe, 5255-5282-2199, www.hoteldistritocapital.com Explore Mercado Sonora is a vast network of connected markets where you can find just about anything if you are willing to enter the labyrinth. In the market for a peacock, a new fridge and a Day of the Dead costume? You’re in luck! We also found an entire stall of trendy enamel plateware for a fraction of what it costs at West Elm. Look for cobs of corn grilled over coals with chili and lime. Read the full Mexico www.vitamindaily.com
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doing and what interests them. From there, unfortunately, it’s a steep cliff. Moving to the left side of the page, I’m presented with new notifications on the groups I belong to, various friendship circles I’ve created and events I utterly don’t care about such as games friends are playing and pages they want me to like. On the far right is a notifying me about Facebook activity of various friends. Little of that information is important, but at least it’s contained on the web page and not spilling into the rest of my digital life. To make sure it stays there, there are a few steps to take. First, go to the Settings menu and find Notifications. Starting at the top, unless you want a noisy computer, turn off notification sounds. Then go to the emails section and decide whether you want to restrict email notifications to security, privacy and account notices (not a bad idea) or go into the list of 63 (!) different events Facebook wants to send you an email about and decide which you absolutely must be informed about. (I’ve turned all of them off and I don’t miss them.) Moving down the Notifications list, you’ll discover that you can’t turn off notifications about events that involve you. But you can turn off “Close Friends Activity.” Do it. Your “close friends” won’t know or care. Then you’ll decide if you want to be notified about being tagged in photos, activity in groups you belong to, and which of your apps can send you information. You will also need to go into any Facebook apps you have on other devices and set your level of notifications there.
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ALAN FORMANEK Festival Director I founded VIMFF in 1998 and have directed it ever since for the last 17 festival centuries. I like working with our great passionate and professional staff and volunteers, creating something out of nothing, and not leaving much of a footprint; green and wild energy that truly inspires and changes lives. I also run the Hory a mesto festival in Slovakia, help with the San Vito Climbing Festival in Sicily, and love rock climbing on the Mediterranean islands. TOM WRIGHT Programming Manager This is my 4th year working with the films, guest speakers and jury at the VIMFF. I enjoy creating a diverse festival that brings together the international and local outdoor communities, and that is used as a platform for sharing stories, ideas and inspiration to dream big and chase adventure. I moved here from England almost 5 years ago and now love these Coast Mountains for the amazing climbing and skiing they offer. MARC HEWITT Director of Operations This is my 7th year with VIMFF; I manage the Festival’s operations, strategy, and marketing. Having an interest in just about everything the world has to offer makes it easy for me to be inspired by the VIMFF films, speakers, audience, and staff at the VIMFF events! I spend plenty of time out of the office and enjoying rock climbing, snowboarding, backcountry skiing, beach volleyball, or taking a run by a creek in the North Shore forests. EAN JACKSON Business Development Manager VIMFF events leave me stoked and inspired. They’re like parties where you get to watch crazy movies, hear interesting people share their adventures AND see your friends over a beer. When not bushwhacking, peak-bagging, jumping-off cliffs on snowshoes or searching for the perfect powder run, I help businesses grow and prosper as management consultant and business prof. VIMFF events are the most fun you can have with your clothes on!
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SIENEKE TOERING Lobby and Volunteer Coordinator I’m the Go-to girl for Centennial Theater, our largest venue. Open to volunteering a couple of hours for a great cause (and a free show)? Let’s talk! In real life, I’m in the event management business. When I’m not sweating the details of putting-on successful events for my clients, you can find me in the mountains on my bike or snowboard. This is my fourth year with the VIMFF. My goal: You leave the show inspired and ready for great adventures! KELLY GREEN Production Manager Afflicted with ‘living in the moment syndrome’ I often act on my wanderlust, kayak and snowshoe guide, work with youth in outdoor education, and play in the ocean, mountains and forests. As the Production Manager for VIMFF, this is my 8th season orchestrating stories and ideas of passion and purpose. VIMFF inspires me to be a bold spirit, stand up for wild places and cultures, and allows me to live simply, travel wide and share happiness, generosity and respect. OTHER VIMFF STAFF Justin Djamtorki (A/V Operator) Jamie Dahmer (Photo Competition Coordinator) Anna Sobieniak (Designer)
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SAMMY KUCHMAK Production Manager I love the culture and the energy that is created during VIMFF. It brings together diverse characters and experiences, which always leaves me inspired to take on new adventures. I’ll continue my involvement with VIMFF for the years to come as it’s a great environment to meet new people, get involved in local activities and be motivated to step outside your comfort level. JENNIFER SANGSTER Production Manager Four years ago I went to my first VIMFF film night, where a friend was volunteering. I was so inspired by the films and speakers, and so moved by the strong community feeling, that I immediately asked about getting involved. Like the other organizers I have a strong passion for the outdoors, spending my free time climbing, hiking, kayaking, and training with horses. I feel privileged to work with such warm, like-minded people. TAVI PARUSEL Audio-Visual Coordinator I am a documentary filmmaker and world traveler, who has a deep passion for experiencing different cultures. I love seeing amazing films about inspiring stories and exciting adventures, which is why I am delighted to work for VIMFF the last few years.
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CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / 35 (USA, 5 minutes, 2013, dir. Nasa Koski, Austin Siadak and Matt Van Biene) : Writer Brendan Leonard delivers a dedication to the joys – both big and small – of the climbing life. PRESENTATION / SASHA DI GIULIAN: Sasha DiGiulian is currently on top of her game and is widely recognized as the top female climber in North America. FILM / SUFFERFEST (USA, 17 minutes, 2013, dir. Cedar Wright): Follow Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright on an ambitious human-powered adventure to summit all of California’s 14,000 foot peaks. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / THE ROAD FROM KARAKOL (USA, 25 minutes, 2013, dir. Fitz Cahall): Kyle Dempster takes off on his bike across Kyrgyzstan with a trailer full of climbing gear and not much of a plan. THE FIELDS - A BOULDERING FILM (Canada, 11 minutes, 2013, dir. Clayton Arnall): The Boulderfields is a fairly unknown, potential world class bouldering area located south of Kelowna, BC, Canada. ROCKIN’ CUBA (France, 28 minutes, 2013, dir. Vladimir Cellier): An exploratory trip to Cuba through music and rock climbing.
HIMALAYAN CLIMBING MATINEE 8 SATURDAY
RIO THEATRE, 2:00PM FILMS / KEEPER OF THE MOUNTAINS (USA, 25 minutes, 2013, dir. Allison Otto): 90 year-old Elizabeth Hawley has interviewed thousands of mountaineers and is a force of nature every bit as impressive and indefatigable as any alpinist. HIGH AND HALLOWED: EVEREST 1963 (USA, 48 minutes, 2013, dir. David Morton, Jake Norton & Jim Aikman): The deeper story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. ! INTERMISSION FILM / THE SUMMIT (Ireland, 95 minutes, 2012, dir. Nick Ryan): 24 climbers attempt to summit the most dangerous mountain on Earth. 48 Hours later, 11 had been killed.
TRAIL RUNNING SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / WHY WE RUN (South Africa, 6 minutes, dir. Dean Leslie): Bernd Heinrich is a retired Professor living in a log cabin in the woods of Western Maine. He has held numerous running records throughout his life and has committed much of his time to the study of the natural world. PRESENTATION / ELLIE GREENWOOD: A Chat with Ellie Greenwood - Ultrarunner. Live presentation and conversation with one of the world’s best ultra-marathon runners. FILM / MOUNTAIN OF GREATNESS (Tanzania, 24 minutes, 2013, dir. Andrew King): Simon Mtuy realizes his long standing dream of running around the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. ! INTERMISSION FILM / TRIALS OF MILES (Australia, 56 minutes, 2013, dir. Beau Miles & Brett Campbell): Will Beau be first person to run The Australian Alpine Walking Track? 680km over Australia’s highest terrain.
CYCLE TRAVELS SHOW
RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATIONS / AINAZ BOZORGZADEH: South East Asia by bike - beyond what I expected. The story of a 5 month cycle tour of SE Asia, 6500kms of unknowns unravelled through random events, random encounters, and a whole lot of dusty tracks. STU COLEMAN: Up, down and around: The N.Z. south island by bike. A six week cycle trip around New Zealand. Visiting a stunning country with diverse and breathtaking scenery wherever they travelled left them wanting more of the same. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATION / ANNE-SOPHIE RODET: Monocyclette - one wheel across Patagonia. Live presentation by Anne-Sophie Rodet on her 6-month unicycle trip from Ushuaia, the Southern tip of South America, to Santiago de Chile. FILM / DANDYHORSE DOUBLE (USA/UK/Canada, 35 minutes, 2013, dir. Dominic Gill): Dominic Gill takes his tandem bicycle adventure to Alberta.
MOUNTAIN MIXER MATINEE 9 SUNDAY
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILMS / BLIND TRUST (Slovakia, 32 minutes, 2013, dir. Rastislav Hatiar): A story of a blind boy who tries to overcome his own limits by climbing Mont Blanc. KUNYE (South Africa, 7 minutes, 2013, dir. James Walsh): This short film tells the story of the 2012 Single Speed World Champs held in Africa for the first time. NOTES ON ICE (UK, 24 minutes, 2013, dir. Mark Whatmore & Mitch Turnbull): A documentary film about the World’s only festival of Ice Music, in which everything; the stage, instruments and auditorium, are made from snow and ice. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / THROUGH ICE AND TIME (Canada, 19 minutes, 2013, dir. Alar Kivilo): A cinematographic journey through the Columbia Icefield. DEFAID A DRINGO: THE CLIMBING SHEPHERD (Wales, 55 minutes, 2013, dir. Alun Hughes): A year in the life of climbing shepherd Ioan Doyle.
GIRL POWER MATINEE
RIO THEATRE, 2:00PM FILM / MAIDENTRIP (USA, 81 minutes, 2013, dir. Jillian Schlesinger): 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. ! INTERMISSION FILM / MADE OF STEEL (Norway, 83 minutes, 2012, dir. Hallgrim Haug): An inspiring and heartwarming story of how one of the world’s greatest female extreme sport personalities recovers from a near fatal parachute accident.
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THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM MOUNTAIN PRESENTATION / SARAH OUTEN: ‘London2London: Via FESTIVAL the World’. BritishFILM Adventurer Sarah Outen talks of the first half of her London2London: Via the World journey in which she is attempting to loop the planet using human power. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATION / MARKUS PUKONEN: Caught with my pants down in the Bermuda Triangle. Markus will share stories, photos, and video from his recent attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean 5800km from Dakar, Senegal to Miami, USA. FILM / AND THEN WE SWAM (UK, 2013, 37 minutes, dir. Ben Finney): In 2010, two friends with zero rowing experience planned to row across the Indian Ocean - without a support boat.
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SKI FEATURES
RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / INTO THE MIND (Canada, 84 minutes, 2013, dir. Dave Mossop & Eric Crosland): From the creators of the award winning film “All.I.Can”, Sherpas Cinema is proud to present their newest feature film, Into The Mind. ! INTERMISSION FILM / MCCONKEY (USA, 109 minutes, 2013, dir. Matchstick Productions): Shane McConkey is revered as a pioneer of freeskiing and ski-BASE jumping, and through his talent and ability to use his trademark irreverent humor, he inspired countless lives.
BIG WALL CLIMBING SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / ON LOCATION (USA, 2 minutes, 2013, dir. Dale Baskin): An unexpected interruption reveals that there’s more to this big wall than meets the eye. JUST A NORMAL WORKING WEEK (Switzerland, 15 minutes, 2013, dir. Christoph Frutiger): A team of elite alpinists attempt a winter ascent of the West Face of Cerro Torre. PRESENTATION / SILVIA VIDAL: Alone on big walls. Exploration. Adventure. Solitude. The spirited Catalan climber, Silvia Vidal seeks these three elements on her big wall sojourns. ! INTERMISSION FILM / THE LAST GREAT CLIMB (UK, 61 minutes, 2013, dir. Alastair Lee): The story of British climber and adventurer Leo Houlding’s quest to reach the summit of one of the world’s most remote and challenging mountains.
MONDAY THE PLANET MATINEE 10 PROTECTING
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILMS / I AM RED (USA, 4 minutes, 2012, dir. Pete McBride): A video poem to highlight the beauty and challenges of this national icon, American River’s Most Endangered River for 2013. THE WATER TOWER (USA, 28 minutes, 2013, dir. Pete McBride): Stunningly beautiful cinematography, danger and deep humanity mark this unique film. THE FORTUNE WILD (Canada, 22 minutes, 2013, dir. Ben Gulliver): A small group of surfers set out to seek their own kind of riches on some of the most remote beaches of the Canadian coast. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / STREAMS OF CONSEQUENCE (USA, 17 minutes, 2013, dir. James Q Martin): Illustrating the audacious beauty of Patagonia, and exploring progressive, realistic alternatives to the dams threatening the region. STEPS / A JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Switzerland, 50 minutes, 2013, dir. Philipp Eyer and Stephan Herrmann): STEPS pursues the question of whether or not snowboarding and skiing in today’s world can be done in harmony with nature.
FAMILY FILM MATINEE
RIO THEATRE, 2:00PM - AGES 12 AND UNDER FREE* FILMS / WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT 10? (Canada, 4 minutes, 2013, dir. Stuart Andrews): Seth Sherlock, aged 10, rides his bike a lot better than accomplished riders twice his age. MY LIFE / THE BIG CLIMB (Northern Island, 28 minutes, 2012, dir. Des Henderson): Ella Kirkpatrick from Sheffield plans to be the youngest girl ever to make it to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite. THE JOY OF AIR (Canada, 4 minutes, 2013, dir. Bryan Smith): Leave the ground beneath your feet. Rise up. LIFE ON ICE (USA, 15 minutes, 2013, dir. Greg Chaney): What does it look like when two veteran adventurers set out on a twomonth expedition across North America’s largest glacier --- with two kids in diapers? ! INTERMISSION FILMS / CAVE UNICYCLING (UK, 6 minutes, 2013, dir. Michael and Katie Garrett): Some call it Cave Unicycling, others Uni-caving, most call it madness. IN SEARCH OF FIRE (South Africa/Lesotho/Germany, 11 minutes, 2011, dir. René Eckert): Riders from distant cities have created a small but thriving scene in one of snowboarding’s most remote outposts. A HAND TO STAND (Canada, 20 minutes, 2013, dir. Lindsay Marie Stewart & Matt Miles): Seven Indigenous students in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest build their own wooden stand up paddleboards, using traditional knowledge in a modern day world. THE QUESTIONS WE ASK (Canada, 4 minutes, 2013, dir. Kalum Ko): Canadian adventurer Bruce Kirkby crosses the Georgia Straight on a stand up paddleboard, and ponders the true meaning of adventure. SUPER MOM (Canada, 10 minutes, 2013, dir. Mike Douglas): Wendy Fisher was the most dominant female Big Mountain Freeskier in the world - then she had kids.
SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS
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THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / SUE OAKEY-BAKER: Finding Jim – a story of adventure, love and survival. Susan Oakey-Baker will present the story of her compelling memoir, Finding Jim, in which she struggles to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl. ! INTERMISSION & BOOK SIGNING PRESENTATION / MARTYN WILLIAMS: Everest to Enlightenment. World Class explorer Martyn Williams takes us up Everest, from Pole to Pole and on intense journeys with remarkable Himalayan Yogis in the quest for the secrets of Enlightenment. FILM / THE PILGRIMAGE (Canada, 25 minutes, 2012,
PRESENTATION / JOHN DUNN: Ellesmere Light. Join SCAN TO UNLOCK EXTRA CONTENT Arctic Adventurer John Dunn for stories from his lightweight, unsupported summer journey in Canada’s high arctic, using as little equipment as possible. ! INTERMISSION FILM / THE CROSSING (Australia, 85 minutes, 2013, dir. Julian Harvey): Two adventurers attempt to drag their home-made kayaks more than one thousand kilometres across a remote island in the arctic.
LIFE AT THE TOP 11 TUESDAY
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / EL CAMPO ES VIDA - THE COUNTRY IS LIFE (USA, 10 minutes, 2013, dir. Bridget Besaw): Javier believes strongly in the joy and beauty of rural life and calls on the viewer to nurture their connection with the natural world. VULTURES OF TIBET (USA/Canada, 22 minutes, 2013, dir. Russell O. Bush): A sacred ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are fed to wild griffon vultures - becomes a popular tourist attraction. EL ULTIMO HIELERO - THE LAST ICE MERCHANT (USA/Ecuador, 15 minutes, 2012, dir. Sandy Patch): For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. ! INTERMISSION FILM / TEA OR ELECTRICITY (Belgium, 93 minutes, 2012, dir. Jérôme Le Maire): The story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas.
SKI MOUNTAINEERING SHOW
RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / KYLE MILLER & JASON HUMMEL: The American Alps Traverse. In 16-days, Kyle and Jason covered 120 miles and 60,000 feet of elevation - 1,000 knee-wrenching feet gained or lost for every mile. This is their story. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / LET’S GO GET SMALL (Norway, 35 minutes, 2013, dir. Fred Arne Wergeland): Dave Treadway goes to explore the Canadian coast range to ski Monmouth mountain. MISSION ANTARCTIC (France, 38 minutes, 2013, dir. Guido Perrini): Xavier de le Rue and Lucas Debari get on a boat to Antarctica to discover a whole new level of riding terrain.
INSPIRED BY NATURE 12 WEDNESDAY
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILM / NORTHERN GREASE (Canada, 65 minutes, 2014, dir. Tamo Campos, John Muirhead & Jasper Snow Rosen): Northern Grease follows three snowboarders on a 18,000 km road trip across Alberta and British Columbia in a waste veggie oil powered school bus. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / RETURN TO THE TEPUIS (USA, 10 minutes, 2013, dir. Joe Riis): A team travels to the top of the Tepuis of Guyana in search of an elusive pepple toad. A HAND TO STAND (Canada, 20 minutes, 2013, dir. Lindsay Marie Stewart & Matt Miles): Seven Indigenous students in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest build their own wooden stand up paddleboards, using traditional knowledge in a modern day world. NORTH OF THE SUN (Norway, 45 minutes, 2012, dir. Inge Wegge): Two young men spend nine months of cold winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote arctic island in Northern Norway.
ADRENALINE SHOW
RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / ANDY LEWIS: With what seems like no regard for his own safety, Andy is pushing the boundaries in the world of slack-lining, freesolo high-lining and base-jumping. FILM / CHASING SUMMITS (France, 21 minutes, 2013, dir. Shams): A paragliding adventure in northern Pakistan. ! INTERMISSION FILM / HEAVEN’S GATE (Finland, 48 minutes, 2013, dir. Nic Good): A group of wingsuit pilots gather at Tianmen Mountain in China, the birthplace of the dream of human flight, to attempt an intimidating feat.
ALPINE ADVENTURES SHOW 13 THURSDAY
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / PAUL McSORLEY: Discovery, the last Adventure in Climbing: It doesn’t matter if he’s doing trad, sport, blocs, ice, mixed, alpine or aid, Paul just loves getting outside with his friends and going climbing. FILM / RESOUNDING SILENCE (Australia, 16 minutes, 2013, dir. Natasha Sebire): Two Australian women climb, explore and paraglide above Greenland’s frozen landscape. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / EVERYDAY (Canada, 12 minutes, 2013, dir. Alexander Lavigne): ACMG Alpine Guide Sarah Hueniken climbs Musashi, one of the hardest mixed routes in Canada. DISTILLED (Scotland, 42 minutes, 2013, dir. Paul Diffley): Distilled is a celebration of Scottish winter climbing and a poignant profile of a life spent in the mountains.
KAYAK SHOW
RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / SENSORY OVERLOAD (USA, 8 minutes, 2013, dir. Rob Raker): Chronicle of blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer learning to whitewater kayak. PRESENTATION / SARAH MCNAIR LANDRY & ERIK BOOMER: Crossing Baffin. American professional white water paddler Erik Boomer, and Canadian polar adventurer Sarah McNair-Landry have recently completed a grueling 65-day expedition across Baffin Island, covering over a 1000 km by kayak, ski and foot. FILM / CASCADA (USA, 8 minutes, 2012, dir. Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong): Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection.
! INTERMISSION FILMS / FREESTYLE KAYAKER (Canada, 4 minutes, 2013, dir. Kelsey Thompson): Few people have pursued Whitewater Kayaking for as long with as much passion as Bryan Kirk. DARK WATER (Canada, 3 minutes, 2013, dir. Kelsey Thompson): Fear is in us all, whether it’s a fear of darkness or pushing the boundaries of your personal abilities. ZAMBEZI LIFE (Canada, 5 minutes, 2013, dir. Blair Trotman): Inside the Batoka Gorge which falls below Victoria Falls is some of most powerful and amazing whitewater in the entire world. ALONE ON THE RIVER (France, 36 minutes, 2013, dir. Stephane Pion): In the heart of the Himalayas, 5 world-class paddlers embark on a month long self-supported kayaking adventure.
SKI SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / THE FENCE (Canada, 2 minutes, 2013, dir. Kari Medig): The simple escape that comes from gliding on snow. SUPER MOM (Canada, 10 minutes, 2013, dir. Mike Douglas): Wendy Fisher was the most dominant female Big Mountain Freeskier in the world - then she had kids. TRI(P)-COLOR (Switzerland, 3 minutes, 2013, dir. Nicolas Falquet): Probably the first time ever that people have skied on colored snow. RISE (France, 40 minutes, 2013, dir. Laurent Jamet): Big mountain skiing is on the rise... ! INTERMISSION FILMS / MORNING RITUALS (USA, 4 minutes, 2013, dir. Chris Dickey): Our morning rituals define us. For some, they involve coffee and newspapers, for others they involve hiking and skiing mountains. VALHALLA (USA, 64 minutes, 2013, dir. Nick Waggoner & Ben Sturgulewski): We follow one man’s escape into the Northern woods, and his wild journey towards satisfaction, understanding, and love in some of the deepest snows on earth.
14 FRIDAY POLISH CLIMBING SHOW
THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / OLA DZIK: Nanga Parbat 2013 - The Unfinished Expedition. Ola Dzik comes to VIMFF with a multimedia presentation describing the events that occurred on Nanga Parbat in June 2013. ! INTERMISSION FILM / FOOTPRINTS ON THE RIDGE (Slovakia, 52 minutes, 2013, dir. Pavol Barabas): Two friends attempt to link the three main mountain ridges in the Tatra mountains bordering Slovakia and Poland.
MOUNTAIN BIKE SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / FLOW: THE ELEMENTS OF FREERIDE (USA, 3 minutes, 2013, dir. Oly Mingo): Flow uses creative graphics and sound design to bring the viewer uncomfortably close to the action. PRESENTATION - DEBORA DE NAPOLI: No Mountain is Bigger Than Life. Debora shares her personal story, the challenges she faced in being a first-time adventure filmmaker, and her hope that we will no longer ask ourselves: “Where Are The Women?” in mountain films. FILMS / LIFE CYCLE PROJECT (Canada, 15 minutes, 2013, dir. Debora De Napoli): Debora De Napoli’s mountain bike challenge – undertaken for very personal reasons – truly inspires life, adventure, and everything! ARRIVAL (Canada, 35 minutes, 2013, dir. The Coastal Crew) A raw look at the talents of the next wave of riders and photographers. Come face to face with their diverse styles as they take on new lines and new places. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / BE THE TRAIL (Canada, 5 minutes, 2013, dir. Morgan Edwards, Michelle Peters, Logan Tacoma): Sometimes to be a better trail rider, you need to throw caution to the wind and turn mountain biking convention on its head... THE ESCAPE (Canada, 17 minutes, 2013, dir. Dan Barham, Seb Kemp, Andy Rogers): Two mountain bikers set forth from Whistler to circumnavigate the Strait of Georgia by bicycle. THE HAUTE ROUTE / LIFE IS A PASS (Switzerland, 16 minutes, 2013, dir. Tom Malecha): Two friends set out to ride the world’s most famous ski tour - on their mountain bikes. NOT BAD (Canada, 30 minutes, 2013, dir. Anthill Films) NotBad is all about having a good time, all while pushing the limits of biking in every discipline.
SATURDAY 15 VIMFF FINALE
CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILM / CASTLES IN THE SKY (USA, 5 minutes, 2013, dir. Ben Moon): Sonnie Trotter establishes a new line in the Canadian Rockies. VIMFF FILM AWARDS 2014 PRESENTATION - SARAH HART: In The Poor House in Patagonia. Sarah shares stories of her last hooray in Southern Patagonia, and a few lessons learned along the way as she navigates life as an unemployed social deviant. FILM / JE VEUX (Germany, 13 minutes, 2012, dir. Joachim Hellinger): ZAZ is a French pop-star and it is her dream to perform on top of Western Europe’s highest peak, Mont Blanc. ! INTERMISSION FILM / PAUL (Canada, 8 minutes, 2013, dir. Alex Savage): Paul and his dog Karma have lived on the road chasing the hardest, most aesthetic bouldering in North America for over 6 years. PRESENTATION / VIKKI WELDON: Blue Jeans. Vikki tackles her biggest challenge yet, a hard multipitch on Mount Yamnuska. Technical, exposed and on crumbly Yam limestone, it is a true Alberta gem. FILMS / OFFWIDTH OUTLAW (USA, 6 minutes, 2013, dir. Celin Serbo): Since 2008, Pamela has been seeking out North America’s most challenging inverted and vertical off-width climbs. GEYIKBAYIRI (Turkey, 28 minutes, 2012, dir. Ozturk Kayikci): At first, local people thought they were treasure hunters and didn’t understand what they were doing...
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Ski Features, Sun Feb 9 @ 7:30 pm (doors 6:30) , Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) USA, 109 minutes, 2013 Directed by Matchstick Productions The legacy one athlete left to the progression of his sports, and the path he paved to conquer his dreams. Shane McConkey is revered as a pioneer of freeskiing and ski-BASE jumping, and through his talent and ability to use his trademark irreverent humor, he inspired countless lives.
And Then We Swam
Himalayan Climbing Matinee, Sat Feb 8 @ 2:00pm (doors 1:30), Rio Theatre Ireland, 95 minutes, 2012 Directed by Nick Ryan The Summit is a feature length documentary about the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history. In August of 2008, 24 climbers converged on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on Earth. 48 Hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished into thin air.
Great Traverses, Sun Feb 9 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque UK, 2013, 37 minutes Directed by Ben Finney North American Premiere In May 2010, two friends set off to row across the Indian Ocean. Having zero rowing experience, they signed up for an organized race - only to find that a lack of entrants meant that there would be no support boat. After an eventful 116-day voyage they got to within 5 miles of Mauritius, but then - on the very last day - it all started to go horribly wrong.
The Last Great Climb
The Crossing
Big Wall Climbing Show, Sun Feb 9 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Centennial Theatre UK, 61 minutes, 2013 Directed by Alastair Lee The Last Great Climb tells the story of British climber and adventurer Leo Houlding’s quest to reach the summit of one of the world’s most remote and challenging mountains. Ulvetanna (Norwegian for ‘the wolf’s tooth’), in Antarctica, was only discovered in 1994 and its north east ridge remained one of the planet’s last few great unclimbed lines.
Maidentrip
Girl Power Matinee, Sun Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm (doors 1:30), Rio Theatre USA, 81 minutes, 2013 Directed by Jillian Schlesinger 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, she finds herself far from land, family, and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom and adventure.
Arctic Adventures Show, Mon Feb 10 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) Australia, 85 minutes, 2013 Directed by Julian Harvey North American Premiere A feature documentary following two young Australians, as they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. The pair attempted to drag their home-made kayaks more than one thousand kilometres across a remote island in the arctic. Equal parts rock n’ roll and youthful exuberance, resulting in disaster. They battled freezing temperatures, kneedeep mud, razor-sharp rocks, got chased by wolves and hid from polar bears.
The Water Tower
Protecting The Planet Matinee, Mon Feb 10 @ 2:00pm (doors 1:30pm), The Cinematheque USA, 28 minutes, 2013 Directed by Pete McBride In Central Kenya, northeast of the Rift Valley, there is a tower. It is a monumental granite swell with a crumbling pinnacle that stretches 17,058 feet into the sky. Mt. Kenya, the second tallest peak in Africa, is home to Ngai, the local water god that is said to create the rains. As a result, Ngai and the mountain provide 70% of the nation’s water supply, fed by glaciers and annual storms that eddy around this looming rock island.
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Alone On The River
Mission Antarctic
Kayak Show, Thu Feb 13 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) France, 36 minutes, 2013 Directed by Stephane Pion North American Premiere In the heart of the Himalayas, 5 world-class paddlers embark on a month long self-supported kayaking adventure. In this spectacularly harsh world of snow, rock and water, they’re faced with a myriad of challenges. Surviving and supporting one another proves harder than expected.
Ski Mountaineering Show, Tue Feb 11 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) France, 38 minutes, 2013 Directed by Guido Perrini From his first trip to Antarctica a few years ago, Xavier de Le Rue came back with a feeling it was the trip of his life, although he felt he only scratched the surface of what was doable. Since then, exploring this magical playground with the hope to get as lucky as the first time with the snow conditions and weather became like an obsession.
El Último Hielero : The Last Ice Merchant
Life at The Top, Tue Feb 11 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque USA/Ecuador, 15 minutes, 2012 Directed by Sandy Patch For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. His brothers, both raised as ice merchants, have long since retired from the mountain. El Último Hielero is a story of cultural change and how three brothers have adapted to it.
Distilled
Alpine Adventures Show, Thu Feb 13 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque Scotland, 42 minutes, 2013 Directed by Paul Diffley North American Premiere Distilled is a celebration of Scottish winter climbing and a poignant profile of a life spent in the mountains. Andy Cave first climbed in Scotland as a teenager. This was the start of a lifelong journey for Andy, which took him from the depths of a Yorkshire coal mine to the peaks of the Himalayas.
Heaven’s Gate
NotBad
Northern Grease
Footprints On The Ridge
Adrenaline Show, Wed Feb 12 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) Finland, 48 minutes, 2013 Directed by Nic Good A group of wingsuit pilots gather at Tianmen Mountain in China, the birthplace of the dream of human flight, to attempt an intimidating feat — flying through the sacred site known as Heaven’s Gate, an archway carved out of the mountain. As Jeb Corliss drops from a helicopter and soars toward the opening, nearly a half-billion people hold their breath.
Inspired by Nature, Wed Feb 12 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque Canada, 65 minutes, 2014 Directed by Tamo Campos, John Muirhead & Jasper Snow Rosen World Premiere Northern Grease follows snowboarders and surfers as they travel in a vegetable oil fueled bus throughout British Columbia and Alberta. The boys find fresh turns while on a mission to understand Canadian resource extraction projects and learn about some of the problems presented by practices like fracking and coal mining.
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FESTIVAL GUEST SPEAKERS SASHA DiGIULIAN
VIMFF Opening Night / Fri Feb 7 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Centennial Theatre
MARKUS PUKONEN
Caught with my pants down in the Bermuda Triangle Great Traverses / Sun Feb 9 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque
Sasha DiGiulian is currently on top of her game and is widely recognized as the top female climber in North America. She comes to VIMFF for a rare stage appearance, giving the audience insight into her latest adventures, including the first female ascent of Alex Huber’s bold 10 pitch, Bellavista (5.14b) on Cima Ovest in the Italian Dolomites.
Markus will share stories, photos, and video from his recent attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean 5800km from Dakar, Senegal to Miami, USA. As a member of the Canadian Wildlife Federation Africa to the Americas Expedition, Markus joined forces with the Oar Northwest team with a mission to gather oceanographic, physiologic, and physical data and use the adventure as a means of educating and inspiring children.
ELLIE GREENWOOD
JOHN DUNN
A Chat with Ellie Greenwood - Ultrarunner Trail Running Show / Sat Feb 8 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Centennial Theatre
Ellesmere Light Arctic Adventures Night / Mon Feb 10 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
As a runner, how do you measure success? Would winning the Vancouver Marathon be the crowning achievement? Would you have to win the world’s most prestigious 100-mile trail run (the Western States 100) to reach the top of the big leagues? In this interview-style presentation, you’ll learn a bit about Ellie, what makes Ellie run and where she’s running to.
Join Arctic Adventurer John Dunn for stories from his lightweight, unsupported summer journey in Canada’s high arctic, using as little equipment as possible but carrying enough food for 55 days. This expedition was all about doing more ... with less. In fact it was amazing how little “stuff” they really needed in order to undertake such a challenging journey.
SARAH McNAIR-LANDRY & ERIK BOOMER
Crossing Baffin Kayak Show / Thu Feb 13 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
American professional white water paddler Erik Boomer, and Canadian polar adventurer Sarah McNair-Landry have recently completed a grueling 65-day expedition across Baffin Island, covering over a 1000 km by kayak, ski and foot. Boomer and Sarah will talk about this expedition and their past adventures which have led them here.
PAUL McSORLEY
Discovery, the last Adventure in Climbing Alpine Adventures / Thu Feb 13 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque
It doesn’t matter if he’s doing trad, sport, blocs, ice, mixed, alpine or aid, Paul just loves getting outside with his friends and going climbing. “New routes are the most rewarding” from scrubbing a crack in Squamish to slogging up a virgin summit on the Patagonian icecap, “the adventure of a first ascent never gets old.”
AINAZ BOZORGZADEH
SUE OAKEY-BAKER
DEBORA DE NAPOLI
For her 29th birthday, Ainaz gave herself the biggest gift: the gift of time - a year to explore. This presentation is the story of the first half of that journey, a 5 month cycle-tour of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Burma in SE Asia. Ainaz will share with you what motivated her to do the trip, what she learned, and what she gained from this adventure.
Using stunning imagery, Susan Oakey-Baker will present the story of her compelling memoir, Finding Jim, in which she struggles to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2.
In an effort to raise the profile of female-inspired mountain biking and mountain sport, Debora De Napoli (Life Cycle Project) shares how a cubicle-dweller becomes a mountain warrior. Debora shares her personal story, the challenges she faced in being a first-time adventure filmmaker, and her hope that we will no longer ask ourselves: “Where Are The Women?” in mountain films.
Finding Jim – a story of adventure, love and survival Spiritual Journeys / Mon Feb 10 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque
South East Asia by bike - beyond what I expected Cycle Travels Show / Sat Feb 8 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
No Mountain is Bigger Than Life Mountain Bike Show / Fri Feb 14 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Centennial Theatre
ANNE-SOPHIE RODET
MARTYN WILLIAMS
OLA DZIK
Live presentation by Anne-Sophie Rodet on her 6-month unicycle trip from Ushuaia, the Southern tip of South America, to Santiago de Chile. It involved fighting crazy Patagonian winds, taking on a lot of rain and riding on way to many gravel roads. Why would you ride 4600km on one wheel?
World Class explorer Martyn Williams takes us up Everest, from Pole to Pole and on intense journeys with remarkable Himalayan Yogis in the quest for the secrets of Enlightenment. This mystical journey of self discovery reveals how you can learn to live in constant bliss and ecstasy while exploring nature at its extremes.
Ola Dzik comes to VIMFF with a multi-media presentation describing the events that occurred on Nanga Parbat in June 2013. Ola was a member of the International Nanga Parbat Expedition which was attacked by terrorists while in base camp situated in the Diamir Valley.
Monocyclette - one wheel across Patagonia Cycle Travels Show / Sat Feb 8 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
Everest to Enlightenment Spiritual Journeys / Mon Feb 10 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque
Nanga Parbat 2013 – The Unfinished Expedition Polish Climbing Show / Fri Feb 14 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm), The Cinematheque
STU COLEMAN
KYLE MILLER & JASON HUMMEL
SARAH HART
New Zealand is a stunning country with diverse and breathtaking scenery. But it is not a place were you can really plan to use the weather to your advantage, so expect to get hammered by headwinds, attacked by sandflies, and confronted by large and numerous hills which ever way you head. And expect rain, lots and lots of rain.
Skiing the North Cascade crest, the “American Alps Traverse” would become a continuous push from Highway 20 through Glacier Peak in a single trip. In 16-days, Kyle and Jason covered 120 miles and 60,000 feet of elevation - 1,000 knee-wrenching feet gained or lost for every mile.
The bank account has run dry. After almost two years of living out of three duffel bags and a trusty Subaru named Bam Bam, Sarah’s got to go back to work. Join her as she shares stories of her last hooray in southern Patagonia, and a few lessons learned along the way as she navigates life as an unemployed social deviant.
Up, down and around. The N.Z. south island by bike Cycle Travels Show / Sat Feb 8 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
The American Alps Traverse Ski Mountaineering Show / Tue Feb 11 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm), Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)
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Exploration. Adventure. Solitude. The spirited Catalan climber, Silvia Vidal seeks these three elements on her big wall sojourns. Vidal has climbed some of the most impressive walls on the planet – and many of them as lengthy solo ascents. From Turnweather Peak and Mt. Asgard in Baffin Island to opening new routes in Peru, India, and Pakistan, Vidal’s list of accomplishments is extraordinary.
British Adventurer Sarah Outen talks of the first half of her London2London:Via the World journey in which she is attempting to loop the planet using human power - traveling from London to London by rowing boat, bike and kayak. The latest phase in 2013 saw her row for 150 days from Japan to Alaska in her second attempt to row across the North Pacific.
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Mount Yamnuska, a mountain famous for its sketchy traditional lines and loose rock, is also home to Blue Jeans, a 7-pitch bolted route. Technical, exposed and on crumbly Yam rock, it is a true Alberta gem. From the hilarities of learning rope management, to dealing with the fear of failure, this show will surely keep you on your toes.
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If our foggy memory serves us correctly, didn’t D.O.A. play its final local show at the Rickshaw Theatre last year to great fanfare? Well, the legendary Vancouver punk band is doing it again, and this time it’s really for the last time... apparently. To celebrate the release of its WELCOME TO CHINATOWN LIVE double LP recorded at the Rickshaw, D.O.A. will perform “a one night only return engagement” Feb. 7 at the Rickshaw as part of the band’s farewell tour. Sure, sure. The Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, Jenny, Mr. Plow and Aging Youth Gang open. Tickets at Highlife, Neptoon, Redcat, Scrape, Zulu Records and northerntickets.com. Details at liveatrickshaw.com.
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JOHN CUSACK’s career-making turn as love-struck underachiever Lloyd Dobler in 1989’s SAY ANYTHING cemented the actor’s lifelong reputation as a sensitive heart throb — due in no small part to his iconic boom box serenade scene. And you know what? The Cameron Crowewritten and directed romantic comedy, which also stars Ione Skye, Frasier’s John Mahoney and a fantastic Lili Taylor, holds up pretty well. See for yourself when it screens Feb. 7, 11:30 p.m. at the Rio Theatre. Details at riotheatre.ca.
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THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL is back for another smorgasbord of films about skiing, mountain biking, surfing, rock climbing, hanging out with sherpas, hiking, base jumping, unicycling and other death-defying activities to make you feel like a lazy, Timbits-addicted slug. The festival spreads its chiselled torso across North Van’s Centennial Theatre, the Rio Theatre and The Cinematheque Feb. 7 to 15. For details and a complete list of films and speakers, go to vimff.org.
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Normally we don’t have time for virtuoso, accomplished musicians under the age of 30. They just rub our grumpy paunches the wrong way. But we’ll make an exception for West Coast indie folk outfit THE FRETLESS. The instrumental string quartet plays everything from early Canadian and Irish fiddle tunes to Radiohead covers. To celebrate the launch of its self-titled sophomore album, THE FRETLESS perform Feb. 9 at St. James Hall. Tickets at Rufus’ Guitars, Highlife and roguefolk.bc.ca.
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B.C. taxpayers who were none too pleased when the final tab for the expansion of the Vancouver Convention Centre came in at a whopping $388 million over the estimated budget might take a degree of comfort from the new Robocop movie. In an online teaser for the film, which opens in theatres Feb. 12, the titular crimefighting cyborg lays waste to the contentious Coal Harbour complex while battling a small army of corporate-owned killer robots. Then again, the remade Robocop — directed by Hollywood newcomer José Padilha (Elite Squad, Elite Squad II) — might not provide much solace at all given that it’s likely going to be yet another example of millions of dollars that probably would have been better spent elsewhere. It’s not as if anyone was crying out for a gritty reboot of a film plenty damn gritty to begin with. In Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original, the main character, family man Alex Murphy (played by Peter Weller), is graphically tortured to death by a gang of evil drug dealers before being brought back to life via experimental robotic enhancements
paid for by an equally evil mega-corporation who run a dystopian Detroit in the near-future. Terrible things ensue. Robocop was a surprisingly smart anticapitalist, Reagan-era satire and predicted the city of Detroit declaring bankruptcy nearly three decades before it came true. It’s become such a cult classic that Detroit residents, despite having some rather more pressing problems to deal with, have kicked $67,000 into a Kickstarter campaign to erect a 10-foot bronze statue of the bulletproof lawman downtown. Keep in mind this is for a movie that was actually filmed in Dallas and L.A. The 2014 version stars Joel Kinnaman (best known for playing non-robotic cop Stephen Holder on the locally shot TV series The Killing) as the robo popo and the cast boasts a number of heavy-hitters such as Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson, so maybe it won’t totally suck after all. But if the dismal reviews or box office numbers for the 2012 version of Total Recall are anything to go by, trying to make expensive, CGI-laden versions of campy Paul Verhoeven sci-fi films might not be such a good idea. If you must watch a robotic policeman patrolling the futuristic mean streets of Vancouver, you might want to save twelve bucks and simply start watching the new J.J. Abrams-produced TV series Almost Human instead. It’s pretty awesome. afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic
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Clooney and co. battle Nazis, rescue art in Monuments Men PART BUDDY FILM, PART ADVENTURE FILM ASKS IF ART IS WORTH DYING FOR THE MONUMENTS MEN
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he Monuments Men is a buddy movie, an adventure film and a throwback to less cynical times. But it also asks a weighty question: is art worth dying for? In the film, directed by George Clooney, men do the honourable thing. There’s no sex. There’s little blood, minimal cursing. It’s a rarity in an industry relying on shock value to peddle its product. Clooney co-wrote the screenplay with Grant Heslov, based on factual accounts in Robert Edsel’s 2010 book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Most know a little about how Nazis plundered Jewish homes, then museums, in pursuit of priceless works of art, but the film tells the story in revelatory detail. In his pitch to FDR, Frank Stokes (Clooney) offers the artsy battle cry “Who will ensure that David is still standing, the Mona Lisa is still smiling?” Stokes is given a halfhearted green light to assemble a team to find and save what he can. The first man he approaches is restoration expert and curator James Granger (Matt Damon, Clooney’s pal from the Oceans films). If the first two men are a little grey and not quite fit for basic training, the other members of the team are hopeless. The team includes an architect (Bill Murray), a sculptor (John Goodman), French artist (Jean Dujardin), art expert (Bob Balaban) and their British contact (Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville). Dimitri Leonidas plays their young translator, a GermanAmerican teen who got out just before the war broke.
NEW ON DVD • Austenland Jane (Keri Russell) is single because the men in her life have never lived up to her literary ideal: Mr. Darcy. She memorized the first three chapters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when she was 13 and has a life-size cardboard cutout of Colin Firth in her bedroom. And so she spends a small fortune on an immersive Austen vacation, which will either cure Jane of her Regency-era affliction or ruin her forever. Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour, JJ Field, Bret Mackenzie (Flight of the Conchords) and Georgia King also star. Director Jerusha Hess and producer Stephenie Meyer
The characters here are absorbing in their own right. Bonneville’s Donald Jeffries is a former boozer seeking redemption from his father, who had to bail him out of a scandal. Pvt. Epstein (Leonidas) wasn’t allowed to visit the museum in his German town to see a great work of art: his grandfather told him it was because he was “too short” but it was really because he was Jewish. The threats to Rodins, Michaelangelos and Monets are many; the Germans are retreating, but taking everything with them for a planned-for Fuhrer Museum. The team’s fellow Americans are bombing entire towns to eradicate the enemy, destroying priceless works as they go. And the Russians plan to keep whatever art they find, compensation for their 20 million soldiers and civilians lost during the war. It’s little wonder that Paris museum curator Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett) is suspicious when Granger offers to retrieve some of the art she watched champagne-swilling German officers cart away. Hitler ups the ante when he sends instructions to destroy everything in the event of his death. Like a spoiled child, if he can’t have it, no one can. “You can wipe out a generation of people,” says Stokes. “But if you wipe out their achievements, it’s like they never existed.” A colossal five million pieces of art were recovered. Action initially lags because the team splits up but finds its footing as the treasure hunts move forward, focusing on two masterworks that come to symbolize the men’s sacrifice. Alexandre Desplat provides a peppy score. Clooney’s The Monuments Men is a treat, offering fresh material in a funny, poignant, enlightening and entertaining package. —reviewed by Julie Crawford
provide commentary, and eight lead actors participate in a Q&A. • Wadjda An inspiring and heart-wrenching story about a 10-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia straining to be heard in a society where “a woman’s voice is her nakedness.” Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) longs to ride a bicycle like the neighbouhood boys do, and a bike for sale in a local shop comes to symbolize everything that is forbidden to her. A revelatory look at what everyday life is like for girls in the Saudi Kingdom. Commentary with writer/director Haifaa Al Mansour is included on the blu-ray, and a Writers’ Guild Q&A with the director. —JC
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Vancouver goes a little bit country URBAN COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS NO LONGER HAVE TO HAUL THEIR WAGONS TO ALBERTA OR ABBOTSFORD FOR LINE DANCING, MECHANICAL BULLS AND OTHER TWANGY DELIGHTS JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer
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ust after nine o’clock on Saturday night, a cluster of women in their early 20s, wearing Daisy Dukes and cowboy hats, jostled with a few plaid shirt-wearing guys to form loose rows on the dance floor as a free line-dancing class got into full stomp to a Florida Georgia Line tune on the bar’s well-worn hardwood floor. Along the wood-paneled walls, deer heads stared down at the dancers who were lit from above by wagon-wheel shaped chandeliers. Beside the dance floor an as yet rider-less mechanical bull sat roped off waiting for its legion of loyal booze-enthused riders to step up. This isn’t a scene from an Alberta saloon or even an Abbotsford pub. This is a typical weekend night at Vancouver’s only country bar, the Bourbon, in the heart of Gastown where it’s not uncommon to wait in line for an hour to get in on a Friday or Saturday night, according to Sebastian Greer, the bar’s managing partner. Greer had very practical business reasons for turning the former run-of-the-mill watering hole into a country bar three years ago. A country music fan himself, he noticed there was nowhere in the city for country lovers to get their fix. “There was a hole in the market, and we tried to fill it,” he said. And he’s never looked back. “Country music is infectious,” he said. Like it or not urbanites, Vancouver is home to a strong and growing contingent of young, hardcore country music fans.
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Sebastian Greer helped turn The Bourbon into Vancouver’s only country bar three years ago. Judging by the weekend lineups, it seems to be paying off. Vancouverite and carpenter Rebecca McQueen, 28, is one such fan. “You can relate to it,” she said explaining she puts on country tunes while she travels from job site to job site in her truck. McQueen grew up in the Southlands area
of Vancouver riding horses, a rural activity she said may have contributed to her love of the outdoors and twangy tunes. Over the years friends teased her for her country tendencies, but lately she’s noticed more office-dwellers downtown embrac-
ing rural culture, proudly donning western wear, such as cowboy boots, as they zip in and out of their glass towers, she said. Fellow city slicker Nicole Freeman is an even bigger country music fan. Continued next page
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arts&entertainment Proliferation of ‘bro country’ credited Continued from page 32 “It is the topics they sing about that I like,” said Freeman, who works in sport management at UBC. “I live in the city and I don’t work on a farm with tractors, but I still identify with the values of country music — everything from being obsessed with big trucks to the type of male chivalry,” she said. Freeman sees almost every country act that comes to the city, including taking in one of her all-time favourites Keith Urban, who performed in Vancouver in front of a packed Rogers Arena last month. “I am a sucker for a guy who plays guitar,” she said. In recent years, the Lower Mainland has turned out its own home-grown bona-fide country stars such as Langley’s Juno-winning Dallas Smith, who’s signed to Vancouver’s 604 Records. Since the spring of 2012, there has been a proliferation of “bro country” with good’ol boys such as Smith making country songs cool again, according to Mark Patric, music director at Vancouver’s country station JR 93. 7 FM. “Country is hot right now,” he said. There used to be the idea country was sappy, old-fashioned stuff parents listened too, but that isn’t the case anymore, said Patric. And country is also not all about the guys. In 2014, he
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The Bourbon wears its country influences with pride, as does Kitsilano-by-way-ofAlberta country singer Wes Mack. said he expects Maple Ridge’s 19-year-old soulful country singer and songwriter Madeline Merlo to kick up some dust. “She’s the whole package,” he said. Wes Mack is a Vancouver country act who got a taste of success in 2013. His single “Duet” made it to number nine on the 2013 Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. His next single “Our Soundtrack” is getting lots of Canadian country radio play. Mack, who lives in Kitsilano, astone’sthrowfromthebeach, grew up in Calgary listening to classic country crooner George Jones and Canadian country icon Ian Tyson. In his teens Mack rebelled and played in a high school punk band, he said. He was inspired to go back to country and become a solo artist while attending a crowd-
pleasing Dierks Bentley concert at the Calgary Stampede. “I remember seeing, quite definitively, this guy with a green Mohawk totally into it and a couple of younger girls totally into it. He had the entire crowd in the palm of his hand,” said Mack. The next day he wrote what he described as his first decent country song. He moved to Vancouver in 2005 to attend UBC. Before coming to Vancouver he never thought much about the way he dressed or what he drove, but in the city he immediately garnered attention driving his pick-up in his cowboy boots and jeans with a big shiny belt buckle, he said, laughing at the recollection. “My friends all just thought I was this weirdo from Alberta.” He said it isn’t hard to be inspired to pen country songs
living in an urban landscape. “It is just finding the little pockets of nature,” he said. When he wants to work on a song he goes down to Kits Beach, sits in the sand, looks out across the water at the city, and writes. Over the years Mack has seen the city evolve and now country music and culture is more accepted, he said. In fact, one of the best shows he has ever played was at the Commodore Ballroom last April, when he opened for American country stars Florida Georgia Line, whose stompfriendly tunes are a line-dance favourite at the Bourbon. “To this day I have never seen people so into a show,” he said. “People in Vancouver were just going crazy.” thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/Thuncher
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HAPPY CAMPER: While the gay rights issue at Sochi continues to cast a dark shadow on the pending Olympics, it was a far rosier picture at UBC’s CampOUT reception at Scotiabank Tower. Led by Access and Diversity director Janet Mee and founding camp director Anna White, guests heard heartwarming testimonials from campers. The event concluded with a video of happy campers played to Walking on Sunshine.
Vancouver TheatreSports executive director Jay Ono and board chair Roland Monteiro welcomed supporters to their annual Grapes of Laugh benefit.
Camper Kailer Belliveau and camp leader Shawn Ayers shared their experiences at UBC’s CampOUT.
From left, improv actors Michael Teigen, David Michard and Denise Jones yukked it up at Vancouver TheatreSport’s marquee fundraiser.
Councillor Tony Tang and Mayor Gregor Robertson hosted the City of Vancouver’s annual Lunar New Year luncheon to usher in the year of horse.
David Poole renewed Scotiabank’s financial support of UBC’s LGBT summer leadership camp led by camp director Anna White and UBC Access and Diversity director Janet Mee.
Dianne Carruthers chaired and Chris Owen was master of ceremonies at the 5th Taste the World fundraiser, to provide ongoing pediatric care for children in Cambodia and Myanmar.
Gala founders and global do-gooders Nina and John Cassils looked to generate another $100,00 for Helen Catton’s Angkor Children’s Hospital clinic in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Real Housewives of Vancouver’s Reiko Mackenzie and Helijet’s Jay Minter were among the many supporters in attendance at the CampOUT reception, held at Scotiabank Tower.
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n the movie Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’s book of the same name, Jonah Hill’s character, assistant general manager Peter Brand, uses his obsession with sports statistics to help turn the moribund Oakland A’s into a winning Major League Baseball club. At one point Brand explains how crunching the numbers works to build a team: “It’s about getting things down to one number. Using the stats the way we read them, we’ll find value in players that no one else can see.” Vancouver’s high school basketball scene has its very own Peter Brand in Eric Hamber secondary’s Sean Wu — an 18-year-old basketball statistics prodigy. Wu has been on the sidelines of the Hamber senior girls team, the Griffins, for two years, but his
Math whiz Sean Wu, 18, helps give the Hamber Griffins an edge through number-crunching. work has been front and centre for coach Jill Polukoshko and her players. Wu collects the raw data from
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for fun, on his own time. Polukoshko credits Sean’s work last year with helping her Tier 1 Griffins finish second in the Van-
couver City League and third in the city championships. This year, the team sits at seventh in the league, but Wu remains dedicated to helping them improve. From the numbers he collected, Wu gave Polukoshko tips on the four things the team has to work on to win more games: turnovers, free throws, offensive rebounds and effective shooting percentages. For each player, he provides a breakdown of strengths and areas for improvement. He also compiles fun stats such as how far the team has travelled and how individual player stats compare to players in the NBA. One of the girls had more rebounds in a season than Brooklyn Nets power forward Kevin Garnett. Each player gets a copy of her spreadsheets, which are also posted on the team’s Facebook page. “The girls love it,” said Polukoshko. Continued on page 36
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hat’s the sweetest, loveliest rolling mass of fur you’ve ever seen? How about a litter of seven puppies, waking up inside a massive industrial pipe near the Georgian border to scamper toward you in a fit of adorableness? You see this and you squeal. Like I did. These yipping, stumbling pups were the first dogs I cuddled here in Sochi. I returned the next day with a pocketful of bologna and cooed as the puppies chomped on what might have been their first solid food. They were still nursing. Other reporters and supervisors on my team have also fallen in love with these abandoned and stray animals. They’re everywhere and they’re clearly taken care of and even cherished by the people who live in this neighbourhood. The international press has also adopted them. An Australian named the three who live at our housing complex. They’re Cracker, Jasper and Bruce.
And they’re missing. The three that played and slept at our bus stop every morning weren’t around to eat the sausages we brought them. They are gone. The mother with the engorged teats near the beach and Georgian border. She is gone. Her puppies. We saw only one. The rest, gone. The hand hired to eliminate the dogs called them “biological trash” and in an interview with ABC News gave the preposterous example of what could go wrong if a stray — despite how impossibly — ran beneath a ski jumper as he returned to Earth. It’d be laughable if this example wasn’t actually used as justification to kill countless animals. The extermination has apparently been going on for months. The exterminator also told the Associated Press, “A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium; we took it away,” he said. “God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country.” The disgrace is the deaths of these dogs. Courier sports editor Megan Stewart is currently on leave in Sochi covering the 2014 Winter Games for the Olympic News Service.
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A woman plays with a dog on a path beside the Black Sea in Sochi, Russia.
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Griffins coach Jill Polukoshko (l) credits Wu with helping her Tier 1 Griffins finish second in the Vancouver City league and third in the city championships. Not surprisingly, Wu identifies with Jonah Hill’s stats-crazed character (r) in the movie Moneyball.
Coach credits stat-head with team’s success Continued from page 35 Wu doesn’t just crunch the numbers to help his own school’s team. For the Midtown Showdown tourney held at Hamber last month, he designed the program — full of stats and interesting quick facts — and compiled numbers for each of the 16 teams. Wu was at each game, pounding on his laptop. He also kept tabs on the top scorers in the tournament, writing details on whiteboards behind the two team benches. In addition to being good with numbers, Wu can also recall names easily and, told once, he referred to the players by their first names the rest of the tournament. “All of the coaches were just flipping out,” Polukoshko said. Many approached her and commented on how
much Wu is like the Hill character in Moneyball. Wu is aware of the similarities. “It is my favourite movie of all time,” he said, adding that just like Peter Brand, he also doesn’t actually play the sports he compiles the stats for. Like Brand, he is brains over brawn. Wu introduced his friend Bob Zhang, 17, to both the movie and the joy of statistics. Wu taught Zhang his process for logging and compiling the data and then Zhang helped Wu on the sidelines at the Showdown. Both Zhang and coach Polukoshko said Wu always seems happy no matter how long he’s been courtside crunching numbers. At the Showdown, both teens were at the tourney from
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morning until night for three days. “The saying goes, ‘if you enjoy what you do, you never work a day in your life’ and I think that really applies to him. He really enjoys what he does so he doesn’t think of it as tiring or work,” Zhang said. Wu’s interest in sports stats began in Grade 3 when he moved to Vancouver from Taiwan. He started with hockey stats and then branched off to baseball and basketball. Wu also created a blog on sports statistics in Grade 10 (seanswush.wordpress.com), which was picked up by American sports blog thefarmclub.net. Wu posts stories on various topics, such as fantasy football picks and the chances of success of the Slovakian hockey team, all based on the stats he compiled. He admits it’s not always easy to find the time for all the other commitments in his life. “I do kind of slack off on my school work,” he said. His grade average is currently at 90 per cent. Wu’s father, Charles Wu, admitted it’s been hard to support the time and effort his only child puts into stats outside of school, but is warming to the activity. “We want him to do something great, but I think the reason we brought him here 10 years back is we would like him to have an education which is more liberal and an environment which can give him diversified knowledge of culture, so, we let him be,” he said. “We tell him that as long as you can keep up with your school work, that is OK.” Charles Wu said he and his wife had no idea of their son’s aptitude for statistics until a few years ago, but they did notice he had a knack for memorization. Charles recalled when his son was two or three years old, he was given a book of the world’s flags and memorized them all on his own in a couple of days, surprising both his parents. Because Wu is graduating this year he’s recruited a Grade 9 protégé Brandon Chou to take over keeping the stats for the girls team after he leaves. Polukoshko said Wu leaving will be a big loss not only for her team, but also for Hamber, where he has become a part of the school’s fabric. Wu plans to attend the University of B.C. after graduation, and eventually become a sportswriter. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/Thuncher
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ave you ridden a bike to Iona Beach recently? This cycling route is truly one of Vancouver’s gems. Starting from the airport, it’s easy to misjudge given that it initially takes you past the UPS depot and some ongoing airport construction. However, this passes quickly, and a flat and largely traffic-free road takes you past riding stables on one side and the airport runway on the other — a curious contrast of bucolic scenery and the low thunder of planes taking off and landing. At the end of the runway, you loop away from the airport and suddenly you’re riding between beautiful wetlands and the ocean until you bear around the corner to Iona. Here everything is peaceful and quiet. You can park your bike, take a walk along the pipeline that extends out into the ocean, have a picnic at one of the tables on the beach or sit for a while admiring the flowers and wildlife in the nature reserve. It’s a tranquil, beautiful spot in an entirely unexpected place. One thing you won’t see any shortage of along the way is bikes. From leisure riders out on a flat, easy spin to bike clubs time trialing and solo riders on training pushes, this is one of Vancouver’s prime cycling spots. It’s a lovely route in and of itself, but even better when linked up with UBC and Marine Drive for a longer ride from Vancouver. Iona has been on my mind this week. A few days ago Vancouver Airport released new details about a high-end outlet mall that’s going to be built on the northeast corner of Sea Island, very close to the Iona route. Drawings for the 35,000 foot facility, which is scheduled to open in 2015, include changes and new access points to the existing cycling trail network
that acts as a crucial link-up for Iona (especially if you want to avoid cycling over the Arthur Laing bridge). Details are fairly vague so it’s hard to tell what the impact will be, though it’s encouraging that the trails are at least acknowledged in the plans. A bigger concern is the traffic this will bring to the area, and how it will change the nature of the route. Without question there will be more cars, more people, and it won’t feel quite the same. Will it still be a route where new cyclists can test out a longer distance com-
fortably and confidently for the first time? Will it still be free enough from cars that bike clubs can time trial and group rides can practice trainingtechniquestogether? It’s not possible to know the answers to these questions at this point, and there’s no question that the outlet mall will bring huge benefits to the area — 1,000 jobs, increased destination appeal — but at the same time, the harsh reality is that one of the most accessible middledistance cycling routes in Vancouver is at risk of being forever changed for the sake
of designer handbags and high end shoes. And that would be a huge loss. It’s a good sign that cycling is acknowledged in the master plan for the development; as the project progresses, the cycling community needs to keep asking questions and making sure that the impact on this unique and special route is minimized where possible. Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting. Read more at sidecut.ca, or send a comment to kay@sidecut.ca.
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MetroVancouverhomesales Home overvaluation more jump30percentinJanuary pronounced inVancouver GLEN KORSTROM Contributing writer
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etro Vancouver home sales stabilized in January, following a sluggish 2013, when sales were dramatically below the 10-year average, according to numbers that the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released Feb. 4. Prices also rose 3.2 per cent year-overyear during the month. Total Metro Vancouver home sales in January reached 1,760, which is a 30.3 per cent increase from the 1,351 sales in the same month a year ago. January sales were also 7.2 per cent above the 10-year sales average for the month, according to the REBGV. Those strong sales are a relief to realtors who suffered through sluggish sales in 2013, when there was the third lowest annual total for the region in the last ten years. Those sales were also 12.9 per cent below
the 10-year average, according to REBGV statistics. “The Greater Vancouver housing market has been in a balanced market for nearly a year,” said REBGV president Sandra Wyant. “This has meant steady home sale and listing activity accompanied by stable home prices.” New listings were also stronger in January than they were a year ago. There were 5,345 new listings for detached, attached and apartment properties in Metro Vancouver in January, or 4.2 per cent more than in the same month a year ago. The benchmark price for a Vancouver home is now $606,800, or 3.2 per cent more than a year ago. Benchmark prices for detached homes rose 3.2 per cent to $929,700 whereas the benchmark price for an apartment increased 3.7 per cent year-over-year to $371,500. Attached property benchmark prices inched up 1.7 per cent year-over-year in January to $457,700. gkorstrom@biv.com
NELSON BENNETT Contributing writer
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omes in Vancouver are overvalued by 10 per cent to 15 per cent, compared with an average of 8 per cent in other regions of Canada, a new TD Economics report concludes. The report confirms Canadian homes are generally overvalued, though that overvaluation must be tempered with factors such as interest rates and rent controls. On a strict price-to-rent comparison, that overvaluation is as high as 60 per cent, and on a home price-to-income ratio, it is 30 per cent. “However, this measure is skewed by rent controls,” the report states. “It is difficult to know whether prices are too high, or if its rents that are too low. A more encompassing definition of income, including government transfers and investment income, suggests the housing market is only 8 per cent overvalued.”
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But both measures don’t take into account interest rates, which have been low for two decades, and which are unsustainable, according to the report. “What really matters is housing affordability. The affordability index is highly sensitive to the level of interest rates. If we assume a more normal interest rate environment, the index points to a 25 per cent overvaluation. On the other extreme, using current interest rates points to a market that is fairly valued.” The report points out that housing prices vary greatly on a regional basis. Overvaluation of homes in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa are much more significant than in other parts of Canada. The report concludes that “much of this imbalance appears to reflect frothier conditions in the larger urban centers of Toronto and Vancouver where prices are estimated to be 10 per cent to 15 per cent overvalued.” nbennett@biv.com
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figures for their next-generation F-150 just yet, but curb weights should be down significantly, and payload and fuel economy up. However, the decision to make the single most popular vehicle in North America out of aluminium is going to have some longlasting repercussions. This is no limited production Audi R8 — nearly a million F-150s were sold in the U.S. and Canada last year. As you can’t really take dents out of an aluminium door panel (think of trying to smooth out a sheet of tinfoil), insurance rates for the truck are going to go up. More problematic, not all body shops have the par-
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